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Ducis was born at Versailles on the 22nd of August 1733. His father, Pierre Ducis, originally from Savoy, was a linen-draper at Versailles. His mother, Maria-Thérèse Rappe, was the daughter of a porter of the Count of Toulouse.
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Excerpt from Jean Sans-Terre, ou la Mort d'Arthur: Tragédie en Trois Actes Et en Vers Il ne me relie plus qu'un defir à former c'el'c que l'intérêt du fajer fu?ife aé'tuellement pour fo'ùtenir pour animer tout l'ouvrage; c'é?: qu'inflruit par le pu blic d'une faute capitale, jaie été allez heureux pour la corriger couvrir s'il fe peut, en partie du moins, les autres fautes qui me font échappée3. Au relie je ne puis trop remercier les a&eurs qui ont repréfenté cette piece. Sans parler des taleus de chacun d'eux en particulier de ce que je leur dois de reconnoiffanoe, pouvois-je dans le rôle d'arthur, de ce jeune prince à qui je donne dix ou douze ans fouhaiter une voix plus tendre une figure plus charmante que celle de Mlle. Simon? Pouvois-je fur - tout defirer plus de grace, plus d'ame plus d'intelligence? Que pouvoir - il me manquer dans le rôle d'hubert puifque c'e?: M. Monvel qui l'a rendu? Par quelles nuances délicates fait - il allier les tous les plus voifins du familier avec les accens les plus mâles ou les plus déchirans de Melpo mène Par quelles re?burces prodigieufes fe met - i! Toujours en mefure avec des moyens foibles fans jamais rien faire perdre aux effets les plus larges les plusfrappans de la fcène tragique! Quelle obligation ne lui ai-je pas dans le perfonnage d'hubert! C'efi pour Arthur qu'il refpire; c'ell pour Arthur qu'il craint qu'il ef père. Il ne veille ilne parle il ne fe tai: il ne difiimule que pour lui. Il ell: pour lui, dans cette tour fune?e comme une feconde providence toujours attentif, toujours pré fent fur les pas d'un tyran foupçonneux féroce, qui rode dans fes cachots femble y flairer fes vic'times. Quelle affe&ionl Quelle inquiétude! Quelle vigilance L'ame d'hubert ou de M. Mo'nvel ell par - tout. Cet a&eur extraordinaire feat toutes les pallions fe transforme dans tous les perfonnages. Voilà le fecret des Duménil des le Kain. Comme eux -il répand de tous côtés dans les moindres détails ce charme d'une création perpétuelle cette énergie douce ou brûlante de la na ture, ce feu de la vie qui le confume lui-même dont il anime fi heureufement fes propres ouvrages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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An exciting collection of Jean-François Ducis' radical reworkings of William Shakespeare's most famous tragedies, penned on the eve of the French Revolution. Following the rules of French neoclassicism, the result is a trio of almost totally different works. Plays included are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliette, and King Lear.
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Ducis was born at Versailles on the 22nd of August 1733. His father, Pierre Ducis, originally from Savoy, was a linen-draper at Versailles. His mother, Maria-Thérèse Rappe, was the daughter of a porter of the Count of Toulouse.
In 1768 Ducis produced his first tragedy, Amélise. The failure of this first attempt was fully compensated by the success of his Hamlet (1769), and Roméo et Juliette (1772). Œdipe chez Admète, imitated partly from Euripides and partly from Sophocles, appeared in 1778, and secured him in the following year the chair in the Academy left vacant by the death of Voltaire. Equally successful was Le Roi Lear in 1783. Macbeth in 1783 did not take so well, and Jean sans peur in 1791 was almost a failure; but Othello in 1792, supported by the acting of Talma, obtained immense applause. Its vivid picturing of desert life secured for Abufas, ou la famille arabe (1795), an original drama, a flattering reception. On the failure of a similar piece, Phédor et Vladimir ou la famille de Sibérie (1801), Ducis ceased to write for the stage; and the rest of his life was spent in quiet retirement at Versailles.
He had been named a member of the Council of the Ancients in 1798, but he never discharged the functions of the office; and when Napoleon offered him a post of honour under the empire, he refused. Amiable, religious and bucolic, he had little sympathy with the fierce, sceptical and tragic times in which his lot was cast. “Alas!” he said in the midst of the Revolution, “tragedy is abroad in the streets; if I step outside of my door, I have blood to my very ankles. I have too often seen Atreus in clogs, to venture to bring an Atreus on the stage. ” Though actuated by honest admiration of the great English dramatist, Ducis is not Shakespearian. His ignorance of the English language left him at the mercy of the translations of Pierre Letourneur (1736-1788) and of Pierre de la Place (1707-1793); and even this modified Shakespeare had still to undergo a process of purification and correction before he could be presented to the fastidious criticism of French taste. That such was the case was not, however, the fault of Ducis; and he did good service in modifying the judgment of his fellow countrymen. He did not pretend to reproduce, but to excerpt and refashion; and consequently the French play sometimes differs from its English namesake in everything almost but the name. The plot is different, the characters are different, the motif different, and the scenic arrangement different. To Othello, for instance, he wrote two endings. In one of them Othello was enlightened in time and Desdemona escaped her tragic fate. Le Banquet de l’amitié, a poem in four cantos (1771), Au roi de Sardaigne (1775), Discours de réception à l’académie française (1779), Épître à l’amitié (1786), and a Recueil de poésies (1809), complete the list of Ducis’s publications.
An edition of his works in three volumes appeared in 1813; Œuvres posthumes were edited by Campenon in 1826; and Hamlet, Œdipe chez Admète, Macbeth and Abufar are reprinted in vol. ii. of Didot’s Chefs-d’œuvre tragiques.
Ducis was noted for his translations of six of Shakespeare's plays. His adaptations, involved renaming characters and revising plots, became the basis for translations into Italian and the languages of Eastern Europe.
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Member of the Council of the Ancients
Linen-draper
