Note that all 7 essays on this page, as well as 8 of those that appear
on the page “More on Shakespeare et al.”
have now been collected in
TRAGICAL HISTORICAL
Late Essays in Western Cultural History
from Boethius to Beckett
Downloadable at
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FROM THE UNDERGROUND
“ ‘Our discussion is serious; if you do not deign to give me your attention, I am not going to bow and scrape before you. I have the underground…’ ”
from Notes from Underground —Dostoevski
I
Montaigne, Orthodoxy, and Mania
(view with link below)
https://issuu.com/johnomeara1797/docs/montaigne_orthodoxy_and_mania
II
“The Book of the Courtier”
(and Hamlet)
(view with link below)
https://issuu.com/johnomeara1797/docs/the_book_of_the_courtier_and_hamlet_
III
The Unaddressed Complaint
in “The Consolation of Philosophy”
(view with link below)
https://issuu.com/johnomeara1797/docs/the_unaddressed_complaint
IV
Jean de Meun and
the Anti-Romance of the Rose
(view with link below)
https://issuu.com/johnomeara1797/docs/jean_de_meun_and_the_limits_of_satire
V
Rousseau and the Legacy of Passion-Love:
Old and New Heloise
(view with link below)
https://issuu.com/johnomeara1797/docs/rousseau_s_moralizing_of_passion-love
VI
Matthew Arnold’s Late, Quixotic Crusade
(view with link below)
https://issuu.com/johnomeara1797/docs/arnold_s_ill-fated_crusade
VII
Samuel Beckett’s Last Stand:
from Godot to Endgame
(view with link below)
https://issuu.com/johnomeara1797/docs/beckett_s_last_stand