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This thesis is a study of appropriations of the early modern banquet course in plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries during the period 1590-1640. My interdisciplinary approach is evident in the range of sources used, including primary material such as accounts of entertain…

When thinking about food and art what usually comes to mind are still-life paintings of fruits and other foodstuffs that are allegories of life or death, but what if food and art go beyond still-life paintings, and that even an everyday meal is art? The making of the food is an …