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Shakespeare''s Double Helix.
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 found...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2007.
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| Colección: | Shakespeare now!
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 intelle. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (142 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781441102058 1441102051 |