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__Montaigne's English Journey__ examines the genesis, early readership, and multifaceted impact of John Florio's exuberant translation of Michel de Montaigne's __Essays.__ Published in London in 1603, this book was widely read in seventeenth-century England: Shakespeare borrowed from it as he drafted __King Lear__ and __The Tempest__, and many hundreds of English men and women first encountered Montaigne's tolerant outlook and disarming candour in its densely-printed pages. Literary historians have long been fascinated by the influence of Florio's translation, analysing its contributions to the development of the English essay and tracing its appropriation in the work of Webster, Dryden, and other major writers. William M. Hamlin, by contrast, undertakes an exploration of Florio's Montaigne within the overlapping realms of print and manuscript culture, assessing its importance from the varied perspectives of its earliest English readers. Drawing on letters, diaries, commonplace books, and thousands of marginal annotations inscribed in surviving copies of Florio's volume, Hamlin offers a comprehensive account of the transmission and reception of Montaigne in seventeenth-century Engl
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- Author
- William M. Hamlin
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780191507021
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Collections, Literary Fiction, Romance