Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays,

Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection (New York Review Books Classics)

An NYRB Classics Original

Shakespeare, Nietzsche wrote, was Montaigneâ€™s best readerâ€”a typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate relationship between Montaigneâ€™s ever-changing record of the self and Shakespeareâ€™s kaleidoscopic register of human character. And there is no doubt that Shakespeare read Montaigneâ€”though how extensively remains a matter of debateâ€”and that the translation he read him in was that of John Florio, a fascinating polymath, man-about-town, and dazzlingly inventive writer himself.

Florioâ€™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 Burtonâ€™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 Montaigneâ€™s and Shakespeareâ€™s visions of the world, and Plattâ€™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.
Country USA
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-04-08
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-04-08
Format	Kindle eBook

Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection (New York Review Books Classics)

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