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