 During the 1820s, after adapting Dr. John William Polidori's short story "The Vampyre" successfully for the stage in France ("Le Vampire", 1820), Nodier involved himself in the theatre for a few years.Among these works were "Bertram ou le Pirate" (1822), based on a play by Charles Maturin in England ("Bertam, or The Castle of St. Aldobrand"), and "Le Monstre et le Magicien" (1826), which adapted an English play based on Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein".Nodier also translated and adapted an Italian play by Carmillo Frederici ("Le Delateur"-"The Informer") in 1821.