Shakespeare's Montaigne

Michel De Montaigne, Stephen Greenblatt, Peter Platt , John Florio

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English

NYRB Classics
15 April 2014

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary essays; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Shakespeare studies & criticism

An NYRB Classics Original

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.

An NYRB Classics Original

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.

By: Michel De Montaigne
Edited by: Stephen Greenblatt, Peter Platt
Translated by: John Florio
Imprint: NYRB Classics
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 205mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 485g
ISBN: 9781590177228
ISBN 10: 1590177223
Pages: 472
Publication Date: 15 April 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE (1533-1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre, and commonly considered the father of modern skepticism. JOHN FLORIO (1553-1625) was an Anglo-Italian linguist and lexicographer, a royal language tutor at the Court of James I, a possible friend and influence on Shakespeare, and the translator of Montaigne's Essais into English. STEPHEN GREENBLATT is the Cogan University Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in Vermont. His most recent book, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. PETER PLATT is Professor of English at Barnard College, where he is also the department's chair. 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.

Reviews for Shakespeare's Montaigne

"""the book is a pleasure in and of its own right. Florio's sinuous, punchy prose is a joy."" The Independent ""exemplary introduction to this exemplary selection of the essays of Montaigne that most influenced Shakespeare"" New Statesman ""beautiful, sonorous, melodious ... even if you already own a translation of Montaigne, you should read this, so you know what he sounded like to his contemporaries."" The Guardian"