| Description |
1 online resource (142 pages). |
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Science language |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Shakespeare Now!
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Shakespeare now!
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; General Editors' Preface; Preface; When everything seems double; Two intertwining helices; That is the true beginning of our end; Then read the names of the actors; and so grow to a point; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge and learning -- Science.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Science in literature.
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Science in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1599 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Turner, Henry S. Shakespeare''s Double Helix. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, ©2007 9780826491190 |
| ISBN |
9781441102058 (electronic book) |
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1441102051 (electronic book) |
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