Montaigne and Shakspere

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Montaigne and Shakspere, by John M. Robertson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Montaigne and Shakspere Author: John M. Robertson Release Date: May 20, 2008 [EBook #25535] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MONTAIGNE AND SHAKSPERE *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Transcribers note: Old spellings of the words have been retained as well as the doubtful use of colons instead of semicolons in many places for the sake of fidelity to the original text. MONTAIGNE AND SHAKSPERE BY JOHN M. ROBERTSON LONDON THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, LIMITED 16, JOHN STREET, BEDFORD ROW, W.C. 1897 THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1 MONTAIGNE AND SHAKSPERE For a good many years past the anatomic study of Shakspere, of which a revival seems now on foot, has been somewhat out of fashion, as compared with its vogue in the palmy days of the New Shakspere Society in England, and the years of the battle between the iconoclasts and the worshippers in Germany. When Mr. Fleay and Mr.