Sir William Cornwallis

For the British Admiral who fought in the Napoleonic Wars, see William Cornwallis.

Sir William Cornwallis (ca. 1579 – 1614) was an early English essayist.

His Essayes (pub. 1616) are written, unusually for the time, in the tradition of Montaigne, rather than that of Francis Bacon. He also wrote Essayes of Certaine Paradoxes (1617) containing the "Encomium on Richard III," and Discourses upon Seneca the Tragedian (1601), the first book in English on the drama of Seneca the Younger.

References

Sir William Cornwallis, Discourses upon Seneca the Tragedian, London, 1601. Facsimile ed., introd. by Robert Hood Brown, 1952, Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 9780820112206.

External links

Essays by Cornwallis at Quotidiana.org
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Name	Cornwallis, William
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Short description	essayist
Date of birth
Place of birth	England
Date of death	1614
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