William M Hamlin

Biographic Data

ID1065886
NAMEWilliam M Hamlin
GIVEN NAMESWilliam M
FAMILY NAMEHamlin
SIGNATUREHAMLIN W M
AFFILIATIONSWashington State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS19
WORKS AS AUTHOR14
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX3

  • Shakespeare and Montaigne

    Willliam M Hamlin, Lars Engle et al.EDITORBOOKShakespeare and Montaigne2021

  • Introduction

    William M HamlinCHAPTERShakespeare and Montaigne2020

    Hamlin’s introduction traces the history of critical debate on literary connections between Shakespeare and Montaigne from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century up through important recent discussions by Terence Cave, Peter Mack, Lars Engle, Warren Boutcher, Stephen Greenblatt, Peter Platt, and Colin Burrow. Examining the multiple forms of evidence used to support claims of literary influence, Hamlin asks what ‘source study’, ‘verbal borr…

  • Montaigne and Shakespeare

    Open AccessWilliam M HamlinARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2016

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  • Rethinking Shakespeare’s Skepticism

    Open AccessWilliam M HamlinARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2014

    Suzanne M. Tartamella. Rethinking Shakespeare’s Skepticism: The Aesthetics of Doubt in the Sonnets and Plays. Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2014. x + 293 pp. $58. ISBN: 978-0-8207-0467-8. - Volume 67 Issue 4

  • Montaigne's English Journey

    William M HamlinBOOKMontaignes English Journey…2013Cited by: 2

    Montaigne’s English Journey examines the genesis, early readership, and multifaceted impact of John Florio’s exuberant translation of Michel de Montaigne’s Essays. Published in London in 1603, this book was widely read in seventeenth-century England: Shakespeare borrowed from it as he drafted King Lear and The Tempest, and many hundreds of English men and women first encountered Montaigne’s tolerant outlook and disarming candour in its densely-pr…

  • Florio's Montaigne and the Tyranny of “Custome”

    Open AccessWilliam M HamlinARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2010Cited by: 3References: 3

    Early English readers of Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) annotated their copies of John Florio's (1553[?]–1625) translation with remarkable frequency and vehemence, creating a context within which printed appropriations of the essayist may be fruitfully examined. No topic intrigued these readers more than custom. Drawing from transcriptions of over 4,000 marginal annotations and situating the Montaignean borrowings of William Shakespeare (1564–1616…

  • Making Religion of Wonder

    William M HamlinARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2009

    Drawing on the concept of "autoethnography" as defined by Mary Louise Pratt, this paper argues that representations of cross-cultural encounter in Renaissance travel narratives often bear striking resemblances to moments of encounter and reunion in Spenserean and Shakespearean romance. Focusing on the trope of linguistic apotheosis which I call the "divine attribution," the paper discusses various New World ethnographies with respect to specific …

  • Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama

    Open AccessWilliam M HamlinARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2007

    Katharine Goodland. Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama: From the Raising of Lazarus to King Lear. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. viii + 254 pp. index. illus. bibl. $94.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5101-0. - Volume 60 Issue 2

  • Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare’s England

    Open AccessWilliam M HamlinBOOKTragedy and Scepticism in…2005

    Hamlin's study provides the first full-scale account of the reception and literary appropriation of ancient scepticism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (c. 1570-1630). Offering abundant archival ev

  • The Plague of Opinion

    Open AccessWilliam M HamlinCHAPTERTragedy and Scepticism in…2005

    That Troilus and Cressida exposes human acts of valuation to relentless sceptical scrutiny is beyond any doubt. When Cressida observes that 'Men prize the thing ungained more than it is' (1.2.280), she initiates a play-long debate on the question of 'prizing' and simultaneously advances two implicit opinions: that the 'thing ungained' has intrinsic, ascertainable value, and that men routinely inflate that value until the 'thing' is no longer 'ung…

  • Sextus Empiricus

    Open AccessWilliam M HamlinARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2003

    Luciano Floridi. Sextus Empiricus: The Transmission and Recovery of Pyrrhonism. (American Philological Association, American Classical Studies, 46.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xvi + 150 pp. $45. ISBN: 0-19-514671-9. - Volume 56 Issue 3

  • On Continuities between Skepticism and Early Ethnography; Or, Montaigne's Providential Diversity

    William M HamlinARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2000

    Discursive continuities between early modern ethnographic reportage and philosophical skepticism are readily observable in the Essais of Montaigne, but the conjunction of these discourses is also evident, though seldom noticed, in works by many other European writers in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This discussion explores an intriguing form of reciprocity between skepticism and early ethnography: in essence, one of the principa…

  • Metaphors of Dispossession

    William M Hamlin, Gesa MackenthunARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1998Cited by: 10

  • America in European Consciousness, 1493-1750

    Shannon Miller, Karen Ordahl Kupperman et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1996

  • Imagined Apotheoses

    William M HamlinARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas1996Cited by: 4References: 4

    Journal of the History of Ideas - Volume 57, Number 3, July 1996