Reading and rhetoric in Montaigne and Shakespeare / / Peter Mack.
"Shakespare and Montaigne are the English and French writers of the sixteenth century who have the most to say to modern readers. Shakespeare certainly drew on Montaigne's essay 'On Cannibals' in writing The Tempest and debates have raged amongst scholars about the playwright...
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| Superior document: | The WISH list (Warwick interdisciplinary studies in the humanities) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2010. |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | WISH list.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (210 pages) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Renaissance Education in Reading and Writing
- 2 Montaigne's Use of His Reading
- 3 Montaigne's Logic of Fragment and Sequence
- 4 Logic and Narrative in Shakespeare and Montaigne
- 5 History in Montaigne and Shakespeare
- 6 Ethical Issues in Montaigne and Shakespeare; Revenge; Death; Repentance; Sex and Marriage; Fathers and Children; Human Sufficiency and the Animals; Justice; Utopia
- Conclusion
- Notes; Select Bibliography
- Index.