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