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 foundations of knowledge about the natural world. Through close analysis of the play and reflection on modern genetic engineering, Turner examine...
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 examine...
