MUTILATED BODIES: MAIMING ENERGIES IN MACBETH
MUTILATED BODIES: MAIMING ENERGIES IN MACBETH

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses upon the representation of the body, as a constitutive of the self in the play “Macbeth” by W. Shakespeare. Considering some critical perspectives upon the play, the paper insists upon the dissected/mutilated body exterior as the object of knowledge and the main means towards the discovery and understanding of the body interior, which is a network of energies generally neglected in the early modern culture. The often conflictual critical interpretations are both the result of the textual ambiguity and of the critical subjectivity motivated/mutiladed by a certain propensity that is historically and socially conditioned.

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