Ducis, Jean-François
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Ducis, Jean-François (1733–1816), French dramatist, the first adapter for the French stage of the plays of Shakespeare, which he probably read in one of the deplorable translations since he almost certainly knew no English. Encouraged by the current French Anglomania, he altered
Hamlet (in 1769) followed by
Romeo and Juliet,
King Lear, and
Macbeth, so that little remained of them but their titles. He knew the tastes of his time and realized audiences would accept Shakespeare only with modifications. His
Othello (1792) owed much of its success to the fine acting of
Talma, and after seeing his last effort,
King John, a contemporary critic deplored the waste of his talents on such rubbish. None of Ducis's own plays, however, has survived.
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