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Wolf All? - Shakespeare and Food in Renaissance England

Synopsis
Five young scholars re-evaluate the playwrights work. The third programme is delivered by Joan Fitzpatrick, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Loughborough University. Fitzpatrick explains her new research on what people ate in Shakespeare’s England, and what food and the consumption of food signifies in his plays. She begins with details of popular Dietary books, such as William Bullein’s Government of Health, (first printed in 1542) and goes on to explore why eating is about far more than nourishment, shedding important new light on the old, the young, the thin, the fat, women, foreigners, the poor and social elites in Shakespeare’s plays.
Series
Essay: Shakespeare 400, The
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Medium
Radio
Transmission details
27 Apr 2016 at 22:45 (Channel: BBC Radio 3)
Duration
15 mins

Credits

Producer
Beaty Rubens
Contributor
Joan Fitzpatrick

Additional Details

Production type
Documentary/Educational/News
Subjects
Drama
Keywords
food; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

General
The series was recorded in front of an audience in Shakespeare’s old classroom at the Guildhall in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Archive

Name

British Library Sound Archive

Email
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Fax
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