Hillman, David

Hillman, David. Hamlet s Entrails. In Strands Afar Remote Israeli Perspectives on Shakespeare. Edited by Avraham Oz, 176-2.02. Newark and London University of Delaware Press, 1998. 

With its extensive contemplation and introspection, Hamlet is a play almost universally associated with the intellect. Critics who have acknowledged the play s fascination with flesh and disease tend to read these concerns in opposition to the cerebral aspects of the text, and as sources of fear and loathing. Yet the striking fixation on inwardness that critics such as Katharine Eisaman Mans have noted in the play, is, as David Hillman has argued, as physiological as it is... 

On idolatry and the precarious boundaries between subjects and their potential objectification, see Introduction, Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture, ed. Margareta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan, and Peter Stallybrass (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1996), 3. On early modern beliefs about the autonomy of body parts, see David Hillman... 

See Katharine Eisaman Maus, Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance (Chicago University of Chicago Press, 1995) and David Hillman, Hamlet, Nietzsche, and Visceral Knowledge, in The Incorporated Self Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Embodiment, ed. Michael O Donovan-Anderson (Lanham, Md., and London Rowman 8c Littlefield, 1996), 93-110 different versions of this essay appear as Hamlet s Entrails, in Strands Afar Remote Israeli Perspectives on Shakespeare, ed. 

Early Modern Body. In The Body in Parts Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe. Edited by David Hillman and Carla Mazzio, 81-105. London Routledge, 1997. 

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