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Evolving Hamlet

Part of the Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230118386

ISBN: 978-1-349-29397-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 17, 2015

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction: The Descent of Ethics

Fletcher, Angus

Pages: 1 –14

[When Darwin sat down to write The Descent of Man, his aim was to show creationists that natural selection could explain the “noblest” of human faculties, not simply language and intelligence, but sociability, sympathy, and the other hallmarks of “the moral sense.”1 And yet in tracing moral...
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Chapter 2Faustus, Macbeth, and the Riddle of Tomorrow

Fletcher, Angus

Pages: 15 –38

[When Swinburne introduced Doctor Faustus to late Victorian audiences, he faced the formidable task of explaining why a play that had been all but forgotten for two hundred years had suddenly regained its relevance.1 Undaunted, he insisted that what seemed a moldy fable of demon-summoning was in...
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Chapter 3Partial Belief in Julius Caesar and Hamlet

Fletcher, Angus

Pages: 39 –66

[With this blunt acceptance of human mortality, Brutus brushes aside the problem that torments Faustus and Macbeth. Though staggered by the news of his wife’s death, he quickly recovers his composure, finding comfort in the thought that all that lives must die. For professing this sudden calm, he...
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Chapter 4Othello and the Subject of Ocular Proof

Fletcher, Angus

Pages: 67 –84

[In William Congreve’s Double-Dealer (1694), Maskwell tricks Lord Touchwood into suspecting that his wife has been unfaithful, prompting a fit of swaggering outrage in which the lord exclaims, “Give me but proof of it, ocular proof!”1 Echoing Othello’s demand that Iago give him “ocular proof” of...
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Chapter 5The Indian Emperour and the Reason of New World Conflict

Fletcher, Angus

Pages: 85 –99

[In George Villiers’ The Rehearsal (1672), love commands the gallant Volscius to doff his boots and bed his mistress. At the same time, honor commands him to set forth fully shod. Finding himself unable to reconcile this conflict of values, Volscius pulls off his boots, then puts them on, then...
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Chapter 6Cartesian Generosity and the New Shakespeare

Fletcher, Angus

Pages: 101 –122

[In The Conquest of Granada (1671), Dryden unleashed the greatness of Almanzor onto the Restoration stage. Soaring to grand new heights of self-importance, Almanzor is so confident in his own authority that he boldly scolds kings,1 so lofty in his personal regard that he petitions his prospective...
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Chapter 7King Lear and the Endurance of Tragedy

Fletcher, Angus

Pages: 123 –134

[When King Lear was published in Nicolas Rowe’s 1710 edition of The Works of William Shakespeare, it was with the warning that its disregard for poetic justice had ruined its tragic effect.1 For the next hundred years, audiences agreed,2 but in the nineteenth century, the play’s critical fortunes...
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Chapter 8The Progress of Ethics

Fletcher, Angus

Pages: 135 –146

[With this optimistic claim, Locke joined a long tradition of philosophers who were confident that the standards of human conduct could be derived without practice or experiment. Since at least the time of Plato, philosophers had believed that the mind could discover “the measures of right and...
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Chapter 9Conclusion

Fletcher, Angus

Pages: 147 –150

[This marks the end of what I referred to in the preface as an “unlikely experiment.” I hope that, along the way, it has come to appear somewhat less unlikely. Though it seems incredible that art could provide the missing link in a scientific ethics, seventeenthcentury tragedy suggests that it...

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