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... 32—both of which note a relation between Montaigne’s ideas and both the character Hamlet and, more generally, the tragedies Othello and Coriolanus. Two German scholars, Stedefeld and Feis, separately took up the question of the relationship between Shakespeare and Montaigne later in the century...

.... The tragic consequences of wringing certitude out of a world that can never produce it are apparent to the very end. With the exception of Coriolanus, COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 22 Othello’s anagno¯risis is more partial than that of any other Shakespearean tragic hero. He learns he has been wrong...