Contents Acknowledgements vii Notes on Contributors x Preface: Reading Montaigne by Colin Burrow xv Introdu ction: Shakespeare and Montaigne: A Critical History 1 William M. Hamlin Introduction: Shakespeare and Montaigne as Thought-Experiment 28 Lars Engle 1. Of Birds and Bees: Montaigne, Shakespeare and the Rhetoric of Imitation 59 N. Amos Rothschild 2. The Nature of Presence: Facing Violence in Montaigne and Shakespeare 78 Anita Gilman Sherman 3. Narcissism, Epochal Change and 'Public Necessity' in Richard II and 'Of Custom, and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law' 90 William McKenzie 4. Shakespeare, Montaigne and Ricoeur: Identity as Narrative 105 Zorica Be c anovi c -Nikolic 5. Genre and Gender in Montaigne and Shakespeare 123 David Schalkwyk 6.

Shakespeare, Montaigne and Moral Luck 140 Maria Devlin McNair 7. Cavell's Tragic Scepticism and the Comedy of the Cuckold: Othello and Montaigne Revisited 166 Cassie M. Miura 8. Feeling Indifference: Flaying Narratives in Montaigne and Shakespeare 180 Alison Calhoun 9. On Belief in Montaigne and Shakespeare 198 William M. Hamlin 10. Making Sense of 'To be or not to be' 216 Richard Dillane 11. 'The web of our life is of a mingled yarn': Mixed Worlds and Kinds in Montaigne's 'We Taste Nothing Purely' and Shakespeare's All's Well that Ends Well 233 Peter G.

Platt 12. Radical Neo-Paganism: The Transmission of Discontinuous Identity from Plutarch to Montaigne to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra 246 Daniel Vitkus 13. Montaigne, Shakespeare and the Metamorphosis of Comedy and Tragedy 263 Richard Hillman 14. Montaigne's Essais , Shakespeare's Trials and Other Experiments of Moment 282 Richard Scholar 15. Montaigne's Shakespeare: The Tempest as Test-case 296 Lars Engle 16. Falstaff's Party: Shakespeare, Montaigne and Their Liberal Censors 326 Patrick Gray Afterword: A Philosophical Shakespeare or a Dramatic Montaigne? 374 George Hoffmann Afterword: A Philosophical Montaigne and a Dramatic Shakespeare? 384 Katharine Eisaman Maus Bibliography 392 Index 435.