The Masque of Food: Staging and Banqueting in Shakespeare's England.

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  • Author(s): PURKISS, DIANE; The Spring
  • Source:
    Shakespeare Studies (Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corporation). 2014, Vol. 42, p91-105. 15p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      DRAMATIC works of William Shakespeare; MEALS; FASTS & feasts; HOSPITALITY; NOBILITY (Social class); CANNIBALISM
    • Subject Terms:
      ENGLAND
    • Abstract:
      In another Charger have the proportion of a Stag made of course paste, with a broad Arrow in the side of him, and his body filled up with claret-wine; . . . The Stag being placed betwixt them with egg shells full of sweet water (as before) placed in salt . . . order it so that some of the Ladies may be perswaded to pluck the Arrow out of the Stag, then will the Claret-wine follow, as blood that runneth out of a wound . . . These were formerly the delight of the Nobility, before good House-keeping had left England, and the Sword really acted that which was only counterfeited in such honest and laudable Exercises as these. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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