Evolving Hamlet

Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection

By: Angus Fletcher

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Hardcover | 15 March 2011 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Introduction: The Descent of Ethics	p. 1
Faustus, Macbeth, and the Riddle of Tomorrow	p. 15
Partial Belief in Julius Caesar and Hamlet	p. 39
Othello and the Subject of Ocular Proof	p. 67
The Indian Emperour and the Reason of New World Conflict	p. 85
Cartesian Generosity and the New Shakespeare	p. 101
King Lear and the Endurance of Tragedy	p. 123
The Progress of Ethics	p. 135
Conclusion	p. 147
Notes	p. 151
Index	p. 185
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