Montaigne's English journey : reading the essays in Shakespeare's day /

Montaigne's English journey : reading the essays in Shakespeare's day /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hamlin, William M., 1957- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Montaigne, Michel de, > 1533-1592 > Translations into English.
Florio, John, > 1553?-1625.
Montaigne, Michel de, > 1533-1592 > Appreciation > History > 17th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: edified by the margin
  • Florio's theatrical Montaigne
  • Sexuality and censorship in the Essayes
  • On the tyranny of 'Custome': ideology and appropriation
  • from an English Montaigne to The Dutch courtesan: common customers
  • Montaignian conscience and the Shakespearean God-surrogate
  • Maximizing Montaigne
  • Afterword: English readership in the wake of the Essayes.