Shakespeare’s Entrails

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Visceral Knowledge

   • David Hillman

   Pages 1-58

3. The Gastric Epic: Troilus and Cressida

   • David Hillman

   Pages 59-80

4. The Inward Man: Hamlet

   • David Hillman

   Pages 81-118

5. The Body Possessed: King Lear

   • David Hillman

   Pages 119-152

6. No Barricado for a Belly: The Winter’s Tale

   • David Hillman

   Pages 153-172

7. Back Matter

   Pages 173-263

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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.

• Hamlet
• King Lear
• knowledge
• William Shakespeare
• British and Irish Literature

'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

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 Tavistock 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.

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