Reading and Rhetoric in Montaigne and Shakespeare

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Shakespare and Montaigne are the English and French writers of the sixteenth century who have the most to say to modern readers. Shakespeare certainly drew on Montaigne''s essay ''On Cannibals'' in writing The Tempest and debates have raged amongst scholars about the...