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Explore the connection between literature and early modern culture with Shakespeare and the Language of Food: A Dictionary. This detailed historical analysis provides a unique look at how food functioned within Shakespeare's writings. As the first dictionary to analyze this specific language, it offers an accurate account of how food intersected with early modern attitudes toward the body and domestic life. By drawing on diverse sources such as early modern dietaries, religious sermons, tracts, and legal documents, this book introduces the contemporary ideas that shaped the representations of feeding and food in his plays and poems. It is an essential resource for those seeking to understand the historical context of food in the Shakespearean era.

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This Bloomsbury dictionary provides the first analysis of Shakespeare's language of food.

The text offers a detailed historical analysis of how food intersected with Shakespeare's plays and poems.

Gain insight into early modern attitudes toward the body and domestic life through this scholarly work.

Research is supported by a variety of sources including early modern dietaries, religious sermons, and legal documents.

This volume provides an historically accurate account of the role of food in early modern culture.

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16 December 2010
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31 March 2010

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