François Laroque

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François Laroque (born 26 April 1948) is a French scholar and translator who specialises in William Shakespeare. He has been professor emeritus at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 since 2014.

Educated at the École Normale Supérieure, he earned his Docteur d'État in 1985. He taught English literature at Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III from 1973 to 1990, and at the New Sorbonne University in Paris from 1990 to 2014. He is a Shakespeare expert and a member of the Centre for Elizabethan Research at Paul Valéry University.

Laroque wrote Shakespeare et la fête (1988), which was translated into English as Shakespeare’s Festive World (Cambridge University Press, 1991). He also authored Shakespeare: Comme il vous plaira for the Découvertes Gallimard collection, translated into ten languages and frequently reprinted. He contributed to an anthology of English literature and helped write a two-volume work on English Renaissance theatre, Théâtre élisabéthain, published in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade on 22 October 2009.