Shakespeare's Essays: Sampling Montaigne from Hamlet to the Tempest (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781474463409)

In this revisionist study, Peter G. Platt provides a detailed history of the literary-critical interest in the Montaigne-Shakespeare connection from the eighteenth century to the present day. Through sustained close-readings of Montaigne's essays and Shakespeare's plays, Platt explores both authors' approaches to self, knowledge and form that stress fractures, interruptions and alternatives. While the change in monarchy, the revived interest in judicial rhetoric and the alterations in Shakespeare's acting company helped shape plays such as Measure for Measure, King Lear and The Tempest, this book contends that Shakespeare's reading of Montaigne is an under-recognised driving force in these later plays.

Author: Peter G. Platt
ISBN-10: 1474463401
ISBN-13: 9781474463409
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2020
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 0.70d