Food in Shakespeare: Early Modern Dietaries and the PlaysAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013 M04 28 - 176 páginas 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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... King's men took the role of the 'thin man' in Shakespeare's plays, which suggests dramatic exploitation of a recognizable stereotype. Throughout the comedies Romantic love is characterized as inadequate feeding: in The Two Gentlemen of ...
... king may progress through the guts of a beggar”) and the ordinary process of bodily decomposition (man's flesh eaten by worms and the earth) is made strange just as the once familiar sacrament of transubstantiation, eating the body of ...
... king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!” (l0: 17) and when the same book advises “There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make ...
... filthy did appeare”, l.4.24.5), he notes that Gluttony is also spiritually bankrupt: “Not meet to be of counsell to a king” (l.4.23.3). Although Shakespeare, like Spenser, concentrated on the body of his gluttonous 20 Food in Shakespeare.
... king of England. The focus on Sir John's gargantuan proportions, and the foodstuffs that have contributed to his ... King Henry 4, is a tuming point. King Henry draws comparison between his son and the ineffectual and recently deposed ...
Contenido
11 | |
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 |
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Food in Shakespeare: Early Modern Dietaries and the Plays Joan Fitzpatrick Vista previa limitada - 2016 |
Food in Shakespeare: Early Modern Dietaries and the Plays Joan Fitzpatrick Vista previa limitada - 2016 |
Food in Shakespeare: Early Modern Dietaries and the Plays Joan Fitzpatrick Vista previa limitada - 2007 |