Introduction: edified by the margin -- Florio's theatrical Montaigne -- Sexuality and censorship in the Essayes -- On the tyranny of 'Custome': ideology and appropriation -- from an English Montaigne to The Dutch courtesan: common customers -- Montaignian conscience and the Shakespearean God-surrogate -- Maximizing Montaigne -- Afterword: English readership in the wake of the Essayes.
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