@inbook{859074240fb944f684312b27907ab4c4,
title = "Artifactual Knowledge in Hamlet",
abstract = "The opening scene of Hamlet stages two spectacular and related moments. The first is the anticipated but nevertheless startling appearance of some “thing” — “this dreaded sight,” “this apparition,” this “figure like the King” — that we will learn to call the Ghost of Old Hamlet. Next is the sudden conversion of the skeptic: “How now, Horatio? You tremble and look pale. / Is not this something more than fantasy?” Instantly converted, Horatio replies, “Before my God, I might not this believe / Without the sensible and true avouch / Of mine own eyes.”1 The conjoined effect of these two moments is double-edged; even as his response highlights the fundamentally important issue of the relation between seeing and knowing that lies at the play{\textquoteright}s heart, Horatio{\textquoteright}s words serve to obscure precisely those complexities that obtain between the senses and knowledge that the rest of the play will investigate with concentration and rigor.",
keywords = "Artificial Experience, Mans Body, Perceptual Body, Seventeenth Century, Somatic Response",
author = "Howard Marchitello",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2010, Howard Marchitello.",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1057/9780230299092\_8",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Palgrave Shakespeare Studies",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "137--153",
booktitle = "Palgrave Shakespeare Studies",
}