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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... desire more detailed analyses of the humours are advised to consult studies by Gail Kern Paster and Jonathan Sawday who, amongst others, have located early modern ideas of selfhood in the context of that period's understanding of the ...
... desires) as purely hydraulic phenomena. As Charles Taylor pointed out: Melancholia is black bile. That's what it means. Today we might think of the relationship expressed in this term as a psycho-physical causal one. An excess of the ...
... desire to feed: like Antony (before his life in Egypt) he denies his bodily needs, caring little for physical comfort when honour is at stake. Coriolanus's abstinence, indeed abhorrence, of food, would have seemed strange to an early ...
... desire to feed replaced by the desire to poison others and seek out death for himself. In Titus Andronicus Tamora participates in the ultimate exotic consumption, cannibalism, but, crucially, she eats with ignorant innocence. Titus is ...
... desire for food and drink can lead one to neglect the compassion owed to one's fellow-man: Had not the ryche glutton ben so greedely geuen to the pampering of his belly, he woulde neuer haue ben so vnmercyfull to the poore Lazarus ...
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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 |
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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 |