Stephen Greenblatt on Shakespeare’s debt to Montaigne
Stephen Greenblatt, The Telegraph June 7, 2014 One wrote essays to be read in private, the younger wrote plays for the public; both turned uncertainty into art. When, near the end of his career, Shakespeare wrote The Tempest, the tragicomic romance that seems at least in retrospect to signal his impending retirement to Stratford, he had in his mind and […]
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