Evolving Hamlet: Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy And The Ethics Of Natural Selection (Cognitive Studies In Literature And Performance)

Evolving Hamlet: Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy And The Ethics Of Natural Selection (Cognitive Studies In Literature And Performance)

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.About the AuthorANGUS FLETCHER Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at UCLA, USA.