Shakespeare's Double Helix - (Shakespeare Now!) by Henry S Turner (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Using A Midsummer Night's Dream as a case study, this book draws together questions of early science, examining the way literature and Renaissance theatre, a new technology itself, were used to illustrate and discuss new developments.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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 <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em> 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 -Â fields of knowledge that preoccupied the most adventurous intellects of Shakespeare's period and that promised limitless power over nature. Shakespeare's writing sheds light on current developments in science, ethics, law, and religion in contemporary culture. This book reveals the richness and peculiarity of early scientific thought in Shakespeare's time and shows how the questions he poses remain fundamental as the nature of 'life' has become one of the most pressing political, ethical, and philosophical problems for society today.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"the conjoined pieces of Turner's book provide a fresh double reading of A Midsummer Night's dream. The book's imbricated left face/right face presentation makes every page mirror, echo or pre-empt themes from the opposite essay. In this year of Darwin's birth, the Globe Theatre's 2009 takes A Midsummer Night's dream on a national tour. Shakespeare Now! seems thus doubtly apt." Flux Magazine, 1 July 2009<br><br>Mention in Today's Books/ Bookweek<br><br>Reviewed by Peter J. Smith in Times Higher Education Supplement, 2008.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Henry S. Turner is Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, USA. He is the author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts (OUP, 2006).
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