Evolving Hamlet - Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection (Hardcover)

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 Fletcher shows how the physical experience of art can transform Darwin's discouraging theory into a practice-based ethics that establishes pluralism, curiosity, and cooperation as the basis of progressive life.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
Release date:	March 2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	A Fletcher
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-11168-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
LSN:	0-230-11168-8
Barcode:	9780230111684

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