Food in Shakespeare: Early Modern Dietaries and the PlaysAshgate 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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