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.

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

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.