Shakespeare and Montaigne

Lars Engle, Chapman Professor of English at Tulsa, is the author of Shakespearean Pragmatism, coauthor of Studying Shakespeare's Contemporaries, and coeditor of English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. His essays have appeared in PMLA, Modern Philology, Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies, SEL, and in numerous other journals and essay collections. He's a past Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America.Patrick Gray is Associate Professor of English Studies and Director of Liberal Arts at Durham University. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism, and Civil War (2019), editor of Shakespeare and the Ethics of War (2019), and co-editor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics (2014). His essays have appeared in Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Sken , JMEMS, Comparative Drama, and Textual Practice.William M. Hamlin is Professor of English at Washington State University and Bornander Distinguished Professor in the WSU Honors College. His books include Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England (Palgrave, 2005), Montaigne's English Journey (Oxford, 2013), and, most recently, Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2020). A recipient of Guggenheim and British Academy fellowships, he has published essays in Renaissance Quarterly, English Literary Renaissance, Shakespeare Studies, Montaigne Studies, and many other journals.