{"product_id":"shakespeares-essays-sampling-montaigne-from-hamlet-to-the-tempest-9781474463416","title":"Shakespeare's Essays: Sampling Montaigne from Hamlet to the Tempest","description":"\u003cp\u003eArgues that the \u003ci\u003eEssais\u003c\/i\u003e of Montaigne were a crucial factor in the composition of later Shakespearean drama\u003cbr\u003eA new way of accounting for the different sorts of plays that Shakespeare wrote later in his careerA detailed history of the literary-critical interest in the Montaigne-Shakespeare connection, from the eighteenth century to the present dayCase studies that, through sustained close-readings of Montaigne's essays and Shakespeare's plays, shows the shared concerns of the authorsA new approach that differs from the more typical method of looking merely for verbal echoes, resulting in a deeper, richer sense of the way that Shakespeare's reading of Montaigne shaped his writingIn 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 \u003ci\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e, this book contends that Shakespeare's reading of Montaigne is an under-recognised driving force in these later plays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter G. Platt is Ann Whitney Olin Professor and Chair of English at Barnard College. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox and Reason Diminished: Shakespeare and the Marvelous, and the editor of Wonders, Marvels, and Monsters in Early Modern Culture. He has written articles about Shakespeare, Renaissance poetics, and rhetoric. Shakespeare's Montaigne, an edition of selections from John Florio's 1603 translation of Montaigne's Essays, was co-edited with Stephen Greenblatt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50387357991186,"sku":"9781474463416","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_35e10082-6961-4d92-8f10-a8b631d35e71.jpg?v=1728879057","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shakespeares-essays-sampling-montaigne-from-hamlet-to-the-tempest-9781474463416","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}