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Author Platt, Peter G., 1961- author.

Title Shakespeare's essays : sampling Montaigne from Hamlet to the Tempest / Peter G. Platt.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 198 pages)
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Contents Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Texts and Titles -- Introduction: 'Were my mind settled, I would not essay but resolve myself' -- 1. Knowing and Being in Montaigneand Shakespeare -- 2. 'A little thing doth divert and turn us': Fictions, Mourning, and Playing in 'Of Diverting or Diversion' and Hamlet -- 3. Mingled Yarns and Hybrid Worlds: 'We Taste Nothing Purely', Measure for Measure, and All's Well That Ends Well -- 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
5. Custom, Otherness, and the Fictions of Mastery: 'Of the Caniballes' and The Tempest -- Epilogue: Shakespeare before the Essays -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary 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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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Themes, motives.
Themes, motives.
Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 -- Influence.
Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.
Self (Philosophy) in literature.
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
Self (Philosophy) in literature.
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: 1474463401 9781474463409 (OCoLC)1136958905
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