Montaigne's English Journey

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 to...