Peter G Platt

Shakespeare's Essays

Sampling Montaigne from Hamlet to the Tempest

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Produktbeschreibung

Argues that the Essais of Montaigne were a crucial factor in the composition of later Shakespearean drama 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 Shakespeare's acting company helped shape plays such as Measure for Measure, King Lear and The Tempest, this book contends that Shakespeare's reading of Montaigne is an under-recognised driving force in these later plays. Peter G. Platt is Ann Whitney Olin Professor and Chair of English at Barnard College.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9781474463416
• ISBN-10: 147446341X
• Artikelnr.: 63156552

Autorenporträt

Peter 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.