Evolving Hamlet: Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection

By Angus Fletcher and Angus Fletcher

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230111688
• ISBN13: 9780230111684
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.3"