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Evolving Hamlet : Seventeenth-century English tragedy and the ethics of natural selection / Angus Fletcher.

  • Accession number

    83450246

  • Class

    65.16/FLE

  • ISBN

    9780230111684 (hbk.), 0230111688 (hbk.)

  • Language

    English

  • Physical description

    xvi, 192 p. ; 23 cm.

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Formatted contents note: Contents: Faustus, Macbeth, and the riddle of tomorrow -- Partial belief in Julius Caesar and Hamlet -- Othello and the subject of ocular proof -- Cartesian generosity and the new Shakespeare -- King Lear and the endurance of tragedy. Su-SCL. Summary, etc: Using Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth, among others, this book shows how the physical experience of art can transform Darwin's discouraging theory into a practice-based ethics.