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Food in Shakespeare : early modern dietaries and the plays /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fitzpatrick, Joan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]
Series:Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Manners and customs.
Food in literature.
Food habits in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Familiar extremes : the case of Sir John Oldcastle
  • Celtic acquaintance and alterity
  • Strange diets : vegetarianism and the melancholic
  • Famine and abstinence, class war, and foreign foodstuff
  • Beyond the pale : profane consumption.