Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England

ISBN-13: 9781108439084 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 294 str.

David B. Goldstein

Opis

Goldstein presents a lively analysis of Shakespeare, Milton, religious writers and recipe book authors from the perspective of communal eating.

Spis treści

Introduction: eating relations; Part I. Cannibal Ethics: Excursus: The Body Edible: 1. The cook and the cannibal: Titus Andronicus and New World eating; 2. I will not eat with you: failures of commensality in The Merchant of Venice; Part II. Communion and Community: 3. Anne Askew, John Bale, and the stakes of eating; Excursus: Receiving the Recipe: 4. How to eat a book: Ann Fanshawe and manuscript recipe culture; 5. Eaters of Eden: Milton and the invention of hospitality; Conclusion: toward a relational ethics of eating; Bibliography.