Shakespeare en devenir

Richard Hillman is Professor at Université François-Rabelais, Tours (English and Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance - CNRS), with a particular interest in early modern theatre. He has published numerous articles and several monographs, most recently Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama: Subjectivity, Discourse and the Stage (Macmillan, 1997) and Shakespeare, Marlowe and the Politics of France (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002). He has also translated four French political tragedies, with introductions and notes: The Tragic History of La Pucelle of Domrémy, Otherwise Known as The Maid of Orléans, by Fronton Du Duc, Carleton Renaissance Plays in Translation 39 (Ottawa: Dovehouse, 2005); The Tragedy of the Late Admiral Coligny, by François de Chantelouve, with The Guisiade, by Pierre Matthieu, CRPT 40 (Ottawa: Dovehouse, 2005); and Coriolan, by Alexandre Hardy (forthcoming). Further work is forthcoming on English theatre’s French connections.