Evolving Hamlet

Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection

  • Authors
  • Angus Fletcher
Book

Part of the Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance book series (CSLP)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: The Descent of Ethics
    Angus Fletcher
    Pages 1-14
  3. Faustus, Macbeth, and the Riddle of Tomorrow
    Angus Fletcher
    Pages 15-38
  4. Partial Belief in Julius Caesar and Hamlet
    Angus Fletcher
    Pages 39-66
  5. Othello and the Subject of Ocular Proof
    Angus Fletcher
    Pages 67-84
  6. The Indian Emperour and the Reason of New World Conflict
    Angus Fletcher
    Pages 85-99
  7. Cartesian Generosity and the New Shakespeare
    Angus Fletcher
    Pages 101-122
  8. King Lear and the Endurance of Tragedy
    Angus Fletcher
    Pages 123-134
  9. The Progress of Ethics
    Angus Fletcher
    Pages 135-146
  10. Conclusion
    Angus Fletcher
    Pages 147-150
  11. Back Matter
    Pages 151-192
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About this book

Introduction

Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows how aesthetic experience can help organize the biological functions of our brains into adaptive social networks.

Keywords

Hamlet King Lear Macbeth tragedy William Shakespeare

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