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10 July 2014updated 16 Jul 2014 11:40am

Montaigne and Shakespeare: two great writers of one mind

Jonathan Bate traces the Bard’s debt to the French essayist Michel de Montaigne.

By Jonathan Bate

Michel de Montaigne: “In his art of self-interrogation he is Hamlet incarnate”. Image: Universal Images Group/Getty

Michel de Montaigne: “In his art of self-interrogation he is Hamlet incarnate”.
Image: Universal Images Group/Getty

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