Shakespeare and Montaigne /

Shakespeare and Montaigne /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Engle, Lars (Editor), Gray, Patrick, 1978- (Editor), Hamlin, William M., 1957- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022].
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Philosophy.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Montaigne, Michel de, > 1533-1592 > Influence.
Montaigne, Michel de, > 1533-1592 > Criticism and interpretation.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : reading Montaigne / by Colin Burrow
  • Introduction : Shakespeare and Montaigne : a critical history / William M. Hamlin
  • Introduction : Shakespeare and Montaigne as thought-experiment / Lars Engle
  • Of birds and bees: Montaigne, Shakespeare and the rhetoric of imitation / N. Amos Rothschild
  • The nature of presence : facing violence in Montaigne and Shakespeare / Anita Gilman Sherman
  • Narcissism, epochal change and 'public necessity' in Richard II and 'Of custom, and not easily changing an accepted law' / William McKenzie
  • Shakespeare, Montaigne and Ricoeur : identity as narrative / Zorica Bečanović-Nikolić
  • Genre and Gender in Montaigne and Shakespeare / David Schalkwyk
  • Shakespeare, Montaigne and moral luck / Maria Devlin McNair
  • Cavell's Tragic Scepticism and the Comedy of the Cuckold : Othello and Montaigne revisited / Cassie M. Miura
  • Feeling indifference : flaying narratives in Montaigne and Shakespeare / Alison Calhoun
  • On belief in Montaigne and Shakespeare / William M. Hamlin
  • Making sense of 'to be or not to be' / Richard Dillane
  • 'The web of our life is of a mingled yarn' : Mixed worlds and kinds in Montaigne's 'We Taste Nothing Purely' and Shakespeare's All's Well that Ends Well / Peter G. Platt
  • Radical Neo-Paganism : the transmission of discontinuous identity from Plutarch to Montaigne to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra / Daniel Vitkus
  • Montaigne, Shakespeare and the metamorphosis of comedy and tragedy / Richard Hillman
  • Montaigne's essais, Shakespeare's trials and other experiments of moment / Richard Scholar
  • Montaigne's Shakespeare : The tempest as test-case / Lars Engle
  • Falstaff's party : Shakespeare, Montaigne and their liberal censors / Patrick Gray
  • Afterword : a philosophical Shakespeare or a dramatic Montaigne? / George Hoffmann
  • Afterword : a philosophical Montaigne and a dramatic Shakespeare? / Katharine Eisaman Maus.