Michael Andrew Screech

Michael Andrew Screech (born May 2, 1926) is emeritus fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. In 1992, he was honored as a Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor. His translation of Montaigne's Essays has been widely recognized.

Selected publications

• The Rabelaisian Marriage (1958)
• L'Evangélisme de Rabelais (1959)
• Regrets and Antiquitez de Rome (1964)
• Marot Evangélique (1967)
• Prognostication (1975)
• Erasmus - Ecstasy and the Praise of Folly (1980)
• Montaigne and Melancholy (1983)
• A New Rabelais Bibliography (1988)
• Some Renaissance Studies (1992)
• Clément Marot, a Renaissance poet discovers the Gospel (1993)
• Laughter at the Foot of the Cross (1998)

Selected translations

• Montaigne: Essays (1991)
• Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel (2006)