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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Notes on Contributors x
5. Preface: Reading Montaigne Colin Burrow xv
6. Introduction: Shakespeare and Montaigne: A Critical History 1
7. Introduction: Montaigne and Shakespeare as Thought-Experiment 28
8. Chapter 1 Of Birds and Bees: Montaigne, Shakespeare and the Rhetoric of Imitation 59
9. Chapter 2 The Nature of Presence: Facing Violence in Montaigne and Shakespeare 78
10. Chapter 3 Narcissism, Epochal Change and ‘Public Necessity’ in Richard II and ‘Of Custom, and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law’ 90
11. Chapter 4 Shakespeare, Montaigne and Ricoeur: Identity as Narrative 105
12. Chapter 5 Genre and Gender in Montaigne and Shakespeare 123
13. Chapter 6 Shakespeare, Montaigne and Moral Luck 140
14. Chapter 7 Cavell’s Tragic Scepticism and the Comedy of the Cuckold: Othello and Montaigne Revisited 166
15. Chapter 8 Feeling Indifference: Flaying Narratives in Montaigne and Shakespeare 180
16. Chapter 9 On Belief in Montaigne and Shakespeare 198
17. Chapter 10 Making Sense of ‘To be or not to be’ 216
18. Chapter 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
19. Chapter 12 Radical Neo-Paganism: The Transmission of Discontinuous Identity from Plutarch to Montaigne to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra 246
20. Chapter 13 Montaigne, Shakespeare and the Metamorphosis of Comedy and Tragedy 263
21. Chapter 14 Montaigne’s Essais, Shakespeare’s Trials and Other Experiments of Moment 282
22. Chapter 15 Montaigne’s Shakespeare: The Tempest as Test-case 296
23. Chapter 16 Falstaff’s Party: Shakespeare, Montaigne and Their Liberal Censors 326
24. Afterword: A Philosophical Shakespeare or a Dramatic Montaigne? 374
25. Afterword: A Philosophical Montaigne and a Dramatic Shakespeare? 384
26. Bibliography 392
27. Index 435