Shakespeare and Montaigne / / ed. by Willliam M. Hamlin, Lars Engle, Patrick Gray.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Bečanović-Nikolić, Zorica,; Calhoun, Alison,; Dillane, Richard,; Engle, Lars,; Gray, Patrick,; Hamlin, William M.,; Hillman, Richard,; Hoffmann, George,; Maus, Katharine Eisaman,; McKenzie, William,; McNair, Maria Devlin,; Miura, Cassie M.,; Platt, Peter G.,; Rothschild, N. Amos,; Schalkwyk, David,; Scholar, Richard,; Sherman, Anita Gilman,; Vitkus, Daniel,
• HerausgeberIn: Engle, Lars,; Gray, Patrick,; Hamlin, Willliam M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (468 p.)

Ground-breaking essays comparing Shakespeare and MontaigneIntroduces and explores a wide range of fresh approaches to comparative study of Shakespeare and MontaigneIlluminates connections, parallels, and discontinuities between the artistry of Shakespeare’s plays and the complexity of Montaigne’s thoughtConsiders Shakespeare and Montaigne within the intellectual history of the Renaissance and the ReformationReflects on Shakespeare and Montaigne as thinkers and innovators speaking to the present day, as well as their own more immediate historical momentExamines arguments for and against Shakespeare and Montaigne as forerunners of modernityShakespeare 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface: Reading Montaigne Colin Burrow -- Introduction: Shakespeare and Montaigne: A Critical History -- Introduction: Montaigne and Shakespeare as Thought-Experiment -- Chapter 1 Of Birds and Bees: Montaigne, Shakespeare and the Rhetoric of Imitation -- Chapter 2 The Nature of Presence: Facing Violence in Montaigne and Shakespeare -- Chapter 3 Narcissism, Epochal Change and ‘Public Necessity’ in Richard II and ‘Of Custom, and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law’ -- Chapter 4 Shakespeare, Montaigne and Ricoeur: Identity as Narrative -- Chapter 5 Genre and Gender in Montaigne and Shakespeare -- Chapter 6 Shakespeare, Montaigne and Moral Luck -- Chapter 7 Cavell’s Tragic Scepticism and the Comedy of the Cuckold: Othello and Montaigne Revisited -- Chapter 8 Feeling Indifference: Flaying Narratives in Montaigne and Shakespeare -- Chapter 9 On Belief in Montaigne and Shakespeare -- Chapter 10 Making Sense of ‘To be or not to be’ -- Chapter 11 ‘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 -- Chapter 12 Radical Neo-Paganism: The Transmission of Discontinuous Identity from Plutarch to Montaigne to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra -- Chapter 13 Montaigne, Shakespeare and the Metamorphosis of Comedy and Tragedy -- Chapter 14 Montaigne’s Essais, Shakespeare’s Trials and Other Experiments of Moment -- Chapter 15 Montaigne’s Shakespeare: The Tempest as Test-case -- Chapter 16 Falstaff’s Party: Shakespeare, Montaigne and Their Liberal Censors -- Afterword: A Philosophical Shakespeare or a Dramatic Montaigne? -- Afterword: A Philosophical Montaigne and a Dramatic Shakespeare? -- Bibliography -- Index