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Shakespeare's Montaigne (Paperback, Main)
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Shakespeare's Montaigne (Paperback, Main)
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List price R655
Loot Price R534
Discovery Miles 5 340
You Save R121 (18%)
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Shakespeare, Nietzsche wrote, was Montaigne's best reader-a
typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate
relationship between Montaigne's ever-changing record of the self
and Shakespeare's kaleidoscopic register of human character. And
there is no doubt that Shakespeare read Montaigne-though how
extensively remains a matter of debate-and that the translation he
read him in was that of John Florio, a fascinating polymath,
man-about-town, and dazzlingly inventive writer himself. Florio's
Montaigne is in fact one of the masterpieces of English prose, with
a stylistic range and felicity and passages of deep lingering music
that make it comparable to Sir Robert Burton's Anatomy of
Melancholy and the works of Sir Thomas Browne. This new edition of
this seminal work, edited by Stephen Greenblatt and Peter G. Platt,
features an adroitly modernized text, an essay in which Greenblatt
discusses both the resemblances and real tensions between
Montaigne's and Shakespeare's visions of the world, and Platt's
introduction to the life and times of the extraordinary Florio.
Altogether, this book provides a remarkable new experience of not
just two but three great writers who ushered in the modern world.
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