François Laroque (born 26 April 1948) is a French academic and translator specialising in the works of William Shakespeare.
[1] François Laroque is a former student of the École Normale Supérieure,[2] he graduated with a Docteur d'État in 1985.
[3] He is a Shakespeare specialist and a member of the centre for Elizabethan research at Paul Valéry University.
He wrote Shakespeare : Comme il vous plaira for the collection ‘Découvertes Gallimard’, translated into ten languages, including English, and often reprinted, as well as a collaborator on an anthology of English literature.
[4][2] He participated in the writing of a two-volume collective work on English Renaissance theatre, the Théâtre élisabéthain, published in the collection ‘Bibliothèque de la Pléiade’ on 22 October 2009.