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

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 Shake...