{"product_id":"culinary-shakespeare-staging-food-and-drink-in-early-modern-england-9780271092126","title":"Culinary Shakespeare: Staging Food and Drink in Early Modern England","description":"\u003cp\u003eEating and drinking--vital to all human beings--were of central importance to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. \u003ci\u003eCulinary Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenaissance 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 historicize food in relation to the early modern body. The essays in \u003ci\u003eCulinary Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e build upon that prior focus on individual bodily experience but also transcend it, emphasizing the aesthetic, communal, and philosophical aspects of food, while also presenting valuable theoretical background. As various essays demonstrate, many of the central issues in Shakespeare studies can be elucidated by turning our attention to the study of food and drink. The societal and religious associations of drink, for example, or the economic implications of ingredients gathered from other lands, have meaningful implications for our understanding of both early modern and contemporary periods--including aspects of community, politics, local and global food production, biopower and the state, addiction, performativity, posthumanism, and the relationship between art and food. \u003ci\u003eCulinary Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to open new interpretive possibilities and will be of interest to scholars and students of Shakespeare and the early modern period as well as to those in food studies, food history, ecology, gender and domesticity, and critical theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eDavid B. Goldstein\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of English at York University. His first book, \u003ci\u003eEating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England\u003c\/i\u003e, shared the 2014 biennial Shakespeare's Globe Book Award. His essays on Shakespeare, Levinas, food studies, and contemporary poetry have appeared in\u003ci\u003e SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Gastronomica\u003c\/i\u003e, and other journals and collections. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAmy L. Tigner\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, Arlington. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eLiterature and the Renaissance Garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II: England's Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e and has published work in \u003ci\u003eModern Drama, English Literary Renaissance, Drama Criticism, Milton Quarterly, Early Theatre Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and several book collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penn State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50380854886674,"sku":"9780271092126","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fc47f13d-9849-44d0-b8c2-e1d016bfc5d9.jpg?v=1728688694","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/culinary-shakespeare-staging-food-and-drink-in-early-modern-england-9780271092126","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}