Review of Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth Century British Culture: Celebrating the Calendar Year by Clare A. Simmons

François Laroque is Emeritus professor of English literature at the University of Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle. He has published articles on Shakespeare, Marlowe and early modern English drama. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Festive World, Cambridge, CUP (1991), of Court, Crowd and Playhouse (London, Thames and Hudson, 1996) and has edited several volumes published by Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3. He has also published new editions and translations of Marlowe, Shakespeare and their contemporaries in the two-volume Anthology of non-Shakespearean drama (1490-1642), Théâtre Élisabéthain, Paris, Gallimard (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade), 2009, which he has co-edited with Jean-Marie Maguin and Line Cottegnies. He is also the author of John Webster. The Duchess of Malfi (Paris, Ellipses, 2018) and has recently published translations of Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, Persuasion) for Livre de Poche Classique and Editions RBA.