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

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

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