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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... body works and the role of diet. While it is crucial to understand the early modern view of the body and humoral theory, and reference will be made to this throughout the book's main chapters, this is not a study of the humours or ...
... body heat and moisture abounds such are usually of a middle Stature, strong composed Bodies, Fleshy but not Fat, great veins, smooth Skins, hot and moist in feeling, their Body is Hairy, if they be Men they have soon Beards there is a ...
... body and mind: for them the brain was merely another organ and its thought processes and the development of character and emotions were materialist phenomena; they did not perceive a body/mind divide. The Cartesian division of mind and body ...
... body part or dietary failing (for example Baley 1602 and Gascoigne 1576) but all offer advice on how to maintain good health via diet. Although some are more stem and humourless than others, the overwhelming impression is that of food ...
... body with sack and capons rather than feeding his soul with the Eucharist, and in itself typifies a deprecated imbalance: 'one halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack'. Throughout Shakespeare's plays excessive ...
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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 |