Table of Contents

Preface - Acknowledgements - Art as a Moral Matrix - Through a Glass Darkly: Mortality and the Outer Mystery in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - The Flesh and the Word in Jumpers - Mortal Flesh in a Moral Matrix of Words: The Temporal and the Timeless in Travesties - The Word Made Flesh: Moral Action in the Body Politic (Professional Foul, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Night and Day, Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth) - 'Not of the Flesh but Through the Flesh': Knowing and Being Known in The Real Thing - Particle Physics and Particular Persons: The Join of Happenstance and Goodness in Hapgood - Moral Absolutes and Moral Contexts - Notes - Bibliography - Index

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'...readers may find themselves swept away...' - American Theatre 'Erudite, thoroughly researched and vigorously written, it demands a reader's undivided concentration, rewarding it generously.' - Markland Taylor, Variety