Shakespeare's Entrails: Belief, Scepticism and the Interior of the Body

by D. Hillman

Overview

Shakespeare's Entrails explores the connections between embodiment, knowledge and acknowledgement in Shakespeare's plays. Hillman sets out a theory of the emergence of modern subjectivity in the context of a world that was increasingly coming to see the human body as a closed system.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403942678
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/14/2006
Series:	Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	263
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

DAVID HILLMAN is Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, UK. He previously trained as a child psychotherapist at the Tavisk Centre, London. He is co-editor (with Carla Mazzio) of The Body in Parts and (with Adam Phillips) of the forthcoming The Book of Interruptions.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Visceral Knowledge The Gastric Epic: Troilus and Cressida The Inward Man: Hamlet The Body Possessed: King Lear No Barricado for a Belly: The Winter's Tale Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'students of Shakespeare will find plenty of food for thought...Hillman's discussion of the cannibalistic fantasies that pervade Hamlet and the extensive heart imagery in King Lear are particularly interesting, and his chapter on Troilus and Cressida is essential reading for anyone tackling this strange but fascinating play. Shakespeare's Entrails is another excellent addition to the Palgrave Shakespeare Studies series.' - J. D. Atkinson, British Theatre Guide

'The scope of Hillman's argument can extend to include appetite, nau­sea, sex, breath, faith and a more general sense of inferiority and exteriority - (o homes and kingdoms). Shakespeare's Entrails brings an essential realm of language into focus, and pro­vides something like a small encyclopedia of viscera on the way.' - Oliver Harris, TLS

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