Culinary Shakespeare: staging food and drink in early modern England

About Culinary Shakespeare: staging food and drink in early modern England

Eating and drinking--vital to all human beings--were of central importance to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Culinary Shakespeare , the first collection devoted solely to the study of food and drink in Shakespeare's plays, reframes questions about cuisine, eating, and meals in early modern drama. As a result, Shakespearean scenes that have long been identified as important and influential by scholars can now be considered in terms of another revealing cultural marker--that of culinary dynamics. Renaissance scholars, as David Goldstein and Amy Tigner point out, have only begun to grapple with the importance of cuisine in literature. An earlier generation of criticism concerned itself principally with cataloguing the foodstuffs in the plays. Recent analyses have operated largely within debates about humoralism and dietary literature, consumption, and interiority, working to…

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