Food in Shakespeare: Early Modern Dietaries and the PlaysAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 28 d’abr. 2013 - 176 pàgines A study of common and exotic food in Shakespeare's plays, this is the first book to explore early modern English dietary literature to understand better the significance of food in Shakespearean drama. 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. It also focuses on the social and moral implications of familiar and strange foodstuff in Shakespeare's works. This new approach provides substantial fresh readings of Hamlet, Macbeth, As you Like It, The Winter's Tale, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Henry V, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus, Pericles, Timon of Athens, and the co-authored Sir Thomas More. Among the dietaries explored are Andrew Boorde's A Compendyous Regyment or a Dyetary of Healthe (1547), William Bullein's The Gouernement of Healthe (1595), Thomas Elyot's The Castle of Helthe (1595) and Thomas Cogan's The Hauen of Health (1636). These dieteries were republished several times in the early modern period; together they typify the genre's condemnation of surfeit and the tendency to blame human disease on feeding practices. This study directs scholarly attention to the importance of early modern dietaries, analyzing their role in wider culture as well as their intersection with dramatic art. In the dietaries food and drink are indices of one's position in relation to complex ideas about rank, nationality, and spiritual well-being; careful consumption might correct moral as well as physical shortcomings. The dietaries are an eclectic genre: some contain recipes for the reader to try, others give tips on more general lifestyle choices, but all offer advice on how to maintain good health via diet. Although some are more stern and humourless than others, the overwhelming impression is that of food as an ally in the battle against disease and ill-health as well as a potential enemy. |
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... play, liberty and surfeit provoke disease and, as in the early modern dietaries, excessive consumption is thought to cause putrefaction within the soul as well as the body. Overeating was condemned by the dietaries but so too was ...
... play should be shown gathered around a cooking pot when their power over Macbeth is strongest, in act 4. Most of the ingredients used by the witches in their brew were familiar and there is a probable reference to contemporary brewing ...
... play feeding metaphors are used by Timon to denounce his false friends and he ultimately rejects all feasts which he comes to believe represent the greed and hypocrisy of humanity; in effect, he is himself eaten up with misanthropy. In ...
... play distinct yet building upon the last. The view held by Nicholas Grene that “each sequent play is written with a full consciousness of what has gone before, and this awareness of previous history shared by characters and audience ...
... Play, the Diuell is in It, the devil Lurchall says that a lake “cannot slake” the thirst of one of his victims, nor the seas “quench his dropsie” (5.4.255-8). In Dante's Inferno Master Adam is described as one shaped like a lute, if ...
Continguts
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Celtic Acquaintance and Alterity | 37 |
Vegetarianism and the Melancholic | 57 |
Famine and Abstinence Class War and Foreign Foodstuff | 81 |
Profane Consumption | 105 |
Conclusion | 127 |
Index | 155 |
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Food in Shakespeare: Early Modern Dietaries and the Plays Joan Fitzpatrick Previsualització limitada - 2016 |
Food in Shakespeare: Early Modern Dietaries and the Plays Joan Fitzpatrick Previsualització limitada - 2016 |
Food in Shakespeare: Early Modern Dietaries and the Plays Joan Fitzpatrick Previsualització limitada - 2007 |