David Hillman
Lecturer on Shakespeare and Renaissance, University of Cambridge
I lecture on Shakespeare and Renaissance culture at the University of Cambridge and direct studies at King’s College in Cambridge. I'm the author of Shakespeare's Entrails, which is my first monograph. I've also written about Shakespeare and Freud; the history of the body in relation to Shakespeare in particular; Shakespeare and philosophy and epistemological issues around Shakespeare. I am currently completing a monograph, Greetings and Partings in Shakespeare and early modern England, which addresses the rich topic of salutary acts in Shakespeare and early modernity.
EXPs by David Hillman
My life in relation to Shakespeare has always been torn between the stage and the page, thinking about Shakespeare as a literary text that one can pore over.
In Shakespeare’s work, the relationship between acknowledgment of the other and knowledge of the other often plays out through the body.
Greetings and partings are mini rituals that frame every encounter and condense emotional intensity into gestures and words.