I’m not suggesting that Shakespeare – or indeed any of his characters – was a vegetarian, but having a number of veggie friends and family-members who follow my blog, and being rather partial to meat-free days myself, I decided to research what Shakespeare has to say about the eating of vegetables. Continue reading “Shakespeare the Vegetarian”
Tag: Shakespeare
A Shakespeare Feast
Something a bit different this week. I thought – following the suggestion of a friend – that it would be a nice idea to get together a group of my friends who live locally and have been complimentary about my blog, and feed them. Thus, the Shakespeare Feast was designed.
Food as Metaphor in Shakespeare
As well as using food and meals to create character and add dramatic impact, Shakespeare litters his plays with food references used metaphorically. Continue reading “Food as Metaphor in Shakespeare”
Falstaff: The first literary foodie?
A few posts back when I was still on the Middle Ages I wrote about Geoffrey Chaucer’s innovative literary creation of a cook as a storyteller – see here Now that I’ve moved onto Shakespeare, I wonder if there’s another literary first here: the first foodie in English literature, Sir John Falstaff. Continue reading “Falstaff: The first literary foodie?”