Eating and drinking-vital to all human beings-were of central
importance to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Culinary
Shakespeare, 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.
Renaissance 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 Culinary Shakespeare 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. Culinary Shakespeare 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.
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