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Culinary Shakespeare : staging food and drink in early modern England / edited by David B. Goldstein and Amy L. Tigner

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : Duquesne University Press, [2016]
Physical Description
vi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Goldstein, David B., 1972- and Tigner, Amy L.

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Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 LOCAL AND GLOBAL -- ch. 1 "The poor creature small beer": Princely Autonomy and Subjection in 2 Henry IV / Peter Parolin -- ch. 2 "Wine and sugar of the best and the fairest": Canary, the Canaries, and the Global in Windsor / Barbara Sebek -- ch. 3 So Many Strange Dishes: Food, Love, and Politics in Much Ado about Nothing / Peter Kanelos -- pt. 2 BODY AND STATE -- ch. 4 Fluid Mechanics: Shakespeare's Subversive Liquors / Karen Raber -- ch. 5 Feeding on the Body Politic: Consumption, Hunger, and Taste in Coriolanus / Ernst Gerhardt -- ch. 6 Sacking Falstaff / Rebecca Lemon -- pt. 3 THEATER AND COMMUNITY -- ch. 7 Cynical Dining in Timon of Athens / Douglas M. Lanier -- ch. 8 Feasting and Forgetting: Sir Toby's Pickle Herring and the Lure of Lethe / Tobias Doring -- ch. 9 Shakespeare's Messmates / Julian Yates -- ch. 10 Room for Dessert: Sugared Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of Dwelling / Julia Reinhard Lupton.
Summary
"Essays discuss food and drink in Shakespeare's plays, reframing questions about cuisine, eating, and meals in early modern drama and emphasizing the aesthetic, communal, and philosophical aspects of food; many issues in Shakespeare studies are thus considered in terms of the cultural marker of culinary dynamics"--
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9780820704951 hardcover acid-free paper
0820704954 hardcover acid-free paper
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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