This book is not merely a study of Shakespeare's debt to Montaigne.
It traces the evolution of self-consciousness in literary,
philosophical and religious writings from antiquity to the
Renaissance and demonstrates that its early modern forms first
appeared in the Essays and in Shakespearean drama. It shows,
however, that, contrary to some postmodern assumptions, the early
calling in question of the self did not lead to a negation of
identity. Montaigne acknowledged the fairly stable nature of his
personality and Shakespeare, as Dryden noted, maintained 'the
constant conformity of each character to itself from its very first
setting out in the Play quite to the End'. A similar evolution is
traced in the progress from an objective to a subjective
apprehension of time from Greek philosophy to early modern authors.
A final chapter shows that the influence of scepticism on Montaigne
and Shakespeare was counterbalanced by their reliance on permanent
humanistic values. -- .
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