{"product_id":"9781590177341","title":"Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection","description":"An NYRB Classics Original\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShakespeare, Nietzsche wrote, was  Montaigne’s best reader—a typically brilliant Nietzschean insight,  capturing the intimate relationship between Montaigne’s ever-changing  record of the self and Shakespeare’s kaleidoscopic register of human  character. And there is no doubt that Shakespeare read Montaigne—though  how extensively remains a matter of debate—and that the translation he  read him in was that of John Florio, a fascinating polymath,  man-about-town, and dazzlingly inventive writer himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlorio’s  Montaigne is in fact one of the masterpieces of English prose, with a  stylistic range and felicity and passages of deep lingering music that  make it comparable to Sir Robert Burton’s \u003ci\u003eAnatomy of Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e and the works of Sir Thomas Browne. This new edition of this seminal  work, edited by Stephen Greenblatt and Peter G. Platt, features an  adroitly modernized text, an essay in which Greenblatt discusses both  the resemblances and real tensions between Montaigne’s and Shakespeare’s  visions of the world, and Platt’s introduction to the life and times of  the extraordinary Florio. Altogether, this book provides a remarkable  new experience of not just two but three great writers who ushered in  the modern world.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172940824816,"sku":"9781590177341","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590177341_p0.jpg?v=1763802977","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590177341","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}