Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Texts and Titles
- Introduction: ‘Were my mind settled, I would not essay but resolve myself’
- 1 Knowing and Being in Montaigne and Shakespeare
- 2 ‘A little thing doth divert and turn us’: Fictions, Mourning, and Playing in ‘Of Diverting or Diversion’ and Hamlet
- 3 Mingled Yarns and Hybrid Worlds: ‘We Taste Nothing Purely’, Measure for Measure, and All's Well That Ends Well
- 4 ‘We are both father and mother together in this generation’: Physical and Intellectual Creations in ‘Of the Affection of Fathers to Their Children’ and King Lear
- 5 Custom, Otherness, and the Fictions of Mastery: ‘Of the Caniballes’ and The Tempest
- Epilogue: Shakespeare before the Essays
- Works Cited
- Index
Works Cited
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 October 2020
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Texts and Titles
- Introduction: ‘Were my mind settled, I would not essay but resolve myself’
- 1 Knowing and Being in Montaigne and Shakespeare
- 2 ‘A little thing doth divert and turn us’: Fictions, Mourning, and Playing in ‘Of Diverting or Diversion’ and Hamlet
- 3 Mingled Yarns and Hybrid Worlds: ‘We Taste Nothing Purely’, Measure for Measure, and All's Well That Ends Well
- 4 ‘We are both father and mother together in this generation’: Physical and Intellectual Creations in ‘Of the Affection of Fathers to Their Children’ and King Lear
- 5 Custom, Otherness, and the Fictions of Mastery: ‘Of the Caniballes’ and The Tempest
- Epilogue: Shakespeare before the Essays
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Shakespeare's EssaysSampling Montaigne from Hamlet to The Tempest, pp. 169 - 184Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2020