Food in Shakespeare Early Modern Dietaries and the Plays

Introduction; Chapter 1 Familiar Extremes: The Case of Sir John Oldcastle; Chapter 2 Celtic Acquaintance and Alterity; Chapter 3 Strange Diets: Vegetarianism and the Melancholic; Chapter 4 Famine and Abstinence, Class War, and Foreign Foodstuff; Chapter 5 Beyond the Pale: Profane Consumption; conclusion Conclusion;