The Tragedy of Nobility on the Seventeenth-Century Stage

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David Quint is George M. Bodman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University. His most recent books are Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy: Ethical and Political Themes in the “Essais” (1998) and Cervantes's Novel of Modern Times: A New Reading of “Don Quijote” (2003). His essays “A Reconsideration of Montaigne's Des Cannibales” and “Narrative Interlace and Narrative Genres in Don Quijote and the Orlando Furioso” appeared in the December 1990 and September 1997 issues of MLQ.