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

by David Hillman

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.

269 pages, Hardcover

First published December 14, 2006

Reviews

[Tom Langham · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5/5

Chapters read:
-Visceral knowledge
-The Gastric Epic

Want to read: The Body Possessed (King Lear)