Shakespeare and Montaigne share a grounded, genial sense of the lived reality of human experience, as well as a surprising depth of engagement with history, literature and philosophy. With celebrated subtlety and incisive humour, both authors investigate abiding questions of epistemology, psychology, theology, ethics, politics and aesthetics. In this collection, distinguished contributors consider these influential, much-beloved figures in light of each other. The English playwright and the French essayist, each in his own fashion, reflect on and evaluate the Renaissance, the Reformation and the rise of new modern perspectives many of us now might readily recognise as our own.
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Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
Publication Date: 30 Apr 2021
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781474458238
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Lars Engle Chapman Professor of English at Tulsa is the author of Shakespearean Pragmatism coauthor of Studying Shakespeare's Contemporaries and coeditor of English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. His essays have appeared in PMLA Modern Philology Shakespeare Survey Shakespeare Quarterly Shakespeare Studies SEL and in numerous other journals and essay collections. He's a past Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America. Patrick Gray is Associate Professor of English Studies and Director of Liberal Arts at Durham University. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood Stoicism and Civil War (2019) editor of Shakespeare and the Ethics of War (2019) and co-editor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics (2014). His essays have appeared in Shakespeare Survey Shakespeare Jahrbuch Skene JMEMS Comparative Drama and Textual Practice. William M. Hamlin is Professor of English at Washington State University and Bornander Distinguished Professor in the WSU Honors College. His books include Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England (Palgrave 2005) Montaigne's English Journey (Oxford 2013) and most recently Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2020). A recipient of Guggenheim and British Academy fellowships he has published essays in Renaissance Quarterly English Literary Renaissance Shakespeare Studies Montaigne Studies and many other journals.