The French loved Shakespeare Here are five stunning French plays reworked from the Immortal Bard's originals: "The Stendhal Hamlet Scenarios," by Stendhal; "Falstaff: The Tavern Scene," by Auguste Vacquerie and Paul Meurice; "Titania: A Musical Drama," by Lucas Gallet and Andre Cormeau; "Oberon's Horn," by Georges Ephraim Mikhael; and the anonymous folk drama, "The French Lear; or, The Beggar King." With a new introduction by editor and translator, Frank J. Morlock."