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• Through the mouths of the dark characters of Hamlet, Timon, Lear, and Iago, he craftily says, or sometimes insinuates the things, which we feel to be so terrifically true, that it were all but madness for any good man, in his own proper character, to utter, or even hint of them . " In his 1590 " Greene's Mourning Garment ", Timonism " about an artist's contemptuous rejection of both his audience and mankind in general.
• The many allusions to dogs in Shakespeare's " Timon of Athens " are references to the school of Cynicism that could be interpreted as suggesting a parallel between the misanthropic hermit, Timon, and Diogenes; but Shakespeare would have had access to Michel de Montaigne's essay, " Of Democritus and Heraclitus ", which emphasised their differences : Timon actively wishes men ill and shuns them as dangerous, whereas Diogenes esteems them so little that contact with them could not disturb him " Timonism " is in fact often contrasted with " Cynicism " : " Cynics saw what people could be and were angered by what they had become; Timonists felt humans were hopelessly stupid & uncaring by nature and so saw no hope for change ."