Part I Shakespeare and Montaigne Revisited edited by Peter Holbrook: Introduction, Peter Holbrook; The Shakespeare-Montaigne-Sextus Nexus: a case study in early modern reading, William Hamlin; 'A judge that were no man': Montaigne, Shakespeare, and imagination, John Lee; Suspicion and belief in Shakespeare's early comedies, John Cox; Pride and self-love in Shakespeare and Montaigne, Marcus Nordlund; The aesthetic strategies of skepticism: mixing memory and desire in Montaigne and Shakespeare, Anita Sherman; Sovereign cruelty in Montaigne and King Lear, Lars Engle; Hearing voices in Coriolanus and early modern scepticism, Rob Carson; Afterword: Montaigne and Shakespeare in changing cultural paradigms, Hugh Grady. Part II: Rethinking misogyny: Shakespeare, gender, and the critical tradition, Lloyd Davis. Part III Issues in Performance: 'Come like shadowes, so depart': the ghostly kings in Macbeth, lain Wright; Playing King Lear: an interview with Alvin Epstein, Marianne Evett. Part IV Empires and Their Inmates: The Pearl Fishers: thinking with Hannah Arendt and William Shakespeare, Julia Lupton; Martinengo's 'Grecians' and Shakespeare's Cyprus, Rebecca Nesvet; The partner of empire: literacy and imperialism in Titus Andronicus, Atsuhiko Hirota. Part V The Ends of Language: Strength in weakness: accentual rhythm in Japanese translations of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Daniel Gallimore; Timon and the end of language, Angus Fletcher. Bibliography; Index.
Graham Bradshaw is Professor of English at Chuo University, Japan. Tom Bishop is Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University, USA. Peter Holbrook is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland, Australia.
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