Thomas Dabbs speaks with Jean-Christophe Mayer about his recent book, Shakespeare’s Early Readers and about his work with the French National Center for Scientific Research and his other research and administrative activities.

00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:30 - CNRS and IRCL: Roles in research
00:08:58 - Human beings in history: materialism and theory
00:21:48 - Trans-disciplinary research
00:26:00 - Shakespeare in Japan
00:27:24 - Montpellier
00:28:48 - First Folio in Japan: Meisei, Used Books
00:42:32 - Early readers: Finding yourself in a book
00:51:03 - Elizabeth Montague and Voltaire
00:57:10 - Popular theatre: Shakespeare, Molière
01:09:07 - The early modern print industry
01;14:35 - Reception theory and appropriation
01:18:04 - The Tempest: Here and There
01:21:34 - English drama and the French
01:27:25 - 'Cahiers Élisabéthains' and literary journals
01:35:00 - Closing remarks