Self-discovery in Montaigne's "Of Solitarinesse" and King Lear.(Michel de Montaigne)

From: Comparative Drama | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

There is not much lesse vexation in the government of a private family, than in the managing of an entire state.... [T]hough domesticall occupations be lesse important, they are as importunate. Moreover, though we have freed our selves from the court, and from the market, we are not free from the principall torments of our life.

--Michel de Montaigne

Shortly before the composition of King Lear, Shakespeare's England saw the appearance of John Florio's 1603 translation of Michel de Montaigne's Essais, including a chapter, "Of Solitarinesse," in which the French author ...

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