Montaigne's English Journey: Reading the Essays in Shakespeare's Day

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Montaigne's English Journey examines the genesis, early readership, and multifaceted impact of John Florio's exuberant translation of Michel de Montaigne's Essays. Published in London in 1603, this book was widely read in seventeenth-century England: Shakespeare borrowed from it as he drafted King Lear and The Tempest, and many hundreds of English men and women first encountered Montaigne's tolerant outlook and disarming candour in its densely-printed...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199684111

ISBN13:9780199684113

Release Date:January 2014

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.6" x 8.6"

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Literary Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction

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