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Evolving Hamlet: Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection (Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance)
Evolving Hamlet SeventeenthCentury English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection - Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
Author: Angus Fletcher
Where science has often been used to explore the questions raised by art, this book does the reverse, suggesting that art can address a problem raised by science: the deep challenge to ethics posed by Darwin?s discovery that we are intentional beings living in an unintentional world. Using Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth, among others, Angus Fletch...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780230111684
ISBN-10: 0230111688
Publication Date: 3/29/2011
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Type: Hardcover
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