Reading and Rhetoric in Montaigne and Shakespeare

by Peter Mack

Book Overview

Shakespare and Montaigne are the English and French writers of the sixteenth century who have the most to say to modern readers. Shakespeare certainly drew on Montaigne's essay 'On Cannibals' in writing The Tempest and debates have raged amongst scholars about the playwright's obligations to Montaigne in passages from earlier plays including Hamlet, King Lear and Measure for Measure.


Peter Mack argues that rather...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474245137
• ISBN13: 9781474245135
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"