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Introduction: Ethics and Physics in Contemporary Plays
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The introductory chapter establishes the relationships among science, science drama, and the history of science through which the arguments of the ensuing chapters will proceed. I argue that recent physics plays make a return to the metaphysical concerns of the early-twentieth-century physicists who were developing quantum theory and relativity. Moreover, they do so while engaging in what Kirsten Shepherd-Barr has characterized as enaction of the science they discuss: producing dramatic forms that manifest scientific content. A concern throughout is the manner in which these enactions alter the ethical stakes for the characters’ decisions.
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