Food in Shakespeare: Early Modern Dietaries and the Plays

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 - 166 pages
A study of common and exotic food in Shakespeare's plays. 'Food in Shakespeare' provides for modern readers and audiences an historically accurate account of the range of, and conflicts between, contemporary ideas that informed the representations of food in the plays.

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Contents

The Case of Sir John Oldcastle
11
Celtic Acquaintance and Alterity
37
Vegetarianism and the Melancholic
57
Famine and Abstinence Class War and Foreign Foodstuff
81
Profane Consumption
105
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Joan Fitzpatrick is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Northampton, UK.

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