Shakespeare's Essays: Sampling Montaigne from Hamlet to The Tempest

Peter G. Platt

Shakespeare's Essays

Sampling Montaigne from Hamlet to The Tempest

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Peter G. Platt, Barnard College

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: October 2020
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9781474463423

Subjects:: Literature, Literary Theory

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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.

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Shakespeare's Essays

Sampling Montaigne from Hamlet to The Tempest

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-viii

Texts and Titles
pp ix-x

Introduction: ‘Were my mind settled, I would not essay but resolve myself’
pp 1-23

1 - Knowing and Being in Montaigne and Shakespeare
pp 24-44

2 - ‘A little thing doth divert and turn us’: Fictions, Mourning, and Playing in ‘Of Diverting or Diversion’ and Hamlet
pp 45-76

3 - Mingled Yarns and Hybrid Worlds: ‘We Taste Nothing Purely’, Measure for Measure, and All's Well That Ends Well
pp 77-108

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
pp 109-128

5 - Custom, Otherness, and the Fictions of Mastery: ‘Of the Caniballes’ and The Tempest
pp 129-153

Epilogue: Shakespeare before the Essays
pp 154-168

Works Cited
pp 169-184

Index
pp 185-198

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