| 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 Be canovi c-Nikoli c -- 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. |
| Abstract |
Shakespeare and Montaigne share a grounded, genial sense of the lived reality of human experience, as well as a surprising depth of engagement with history, literature and philosophy. With celebrated subtlety and incisive humour, both authors investigate abiding questions of epistemology, psychology, theology, ethics, politics and aesthetics. In this collection, distinguished contributors consider these influential, much-beloved figures in light of each other. The English playwright and the French essayist, each in his own fashion, reflect on and evaluate the Renaissance, the Reformation and the rise of new modern perspectives many of us now might readily recognise as our own. -- Publisher description. |
