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

Argues that the Essais of Montaigne were a crucial factor in the composition of later Shakespearean drama
A 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 approa...