Shakespeare's Double Helix

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9119-0
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 132 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 252 g

Reihe: Shakespeare Now!

What does it mean to make life? This book focuses on one of the key questions for culture and science in both Shakespeare’s time and our own. Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night’s Dream during a period when the 'new science' had begun to unsettle the foundations of knowledge about the natural world. Through close analysis of the play and reflection on modern genetic engineering, Turner examines developments in early modern culture as it sought to come to terms with the new forces of magic, astrology, alchemy and mechanics, fields of knowledge that preoccupied the most adventurous intellects of Shakespeare’s period and that promised limitless power over nature. Shakespeare's writing sheds light on current developments in science, ethics, law, and religion in contemporary culture. The book reveals the richness and peculiarity of early scientific thought in Shakespeare’s time and shows how the questions he poses remain fundamental as the nature of 'life' has become one of the most pressing political, ethical, and philosophical problems for society today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brookes, Geoff

Turner, Henry S.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1.Poiesis

2. Metamorphosis

3. Theaters of Knowledge

4. Judgment and Sense

5. Law and Authority

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Henry S. Turner is Assistant Professor at Rutgers University. He is the author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts (OUP, 2006).