Professor Amy Tigner
Carlisle Hall 622
Office Hours: T/Th 1:30-2:30 pm and by appointment
W 2-4:50 pm, Carlisle 212
English 5308: Culinary Shakespeare
In this course, we will investigate culinary and medicinal references and uses in the literature of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. We will also be working with 16th and 17th century manuscript receipt (recipe) books. Students will gain the skills to do archival research for early modern manuscript texts and to participate in the burgeoning scholarly conversations about 16th and 17th century receipt books. We will begin with an intensive study of early modern paleography, or handwriting, enabling students to read manuscripts produced in the period. Students will participate in and contribute to the two related digital humanities initiatives, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO), and Early Modern Recipes Online Collective (EMROC) by collectively transcribing and making an online edition of a seventeenth-century cookbook, Folger Va430, Mary Grenville. Students will blog about their experiences and their knowledge both on the class blog site and on a public access blog site devoted to recipe research. Throughout the course, we will investigate how to write about these texts, both as separate entities and in concert with literary production of the period. We will be reading several of Shakespeare’s plays, including Merry Wives of Winsor, Macbeth, Titus Andronicus, Henry IV, parts 1 and II, Antony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest. Students will also read the most recent scholarly work in the field about food in the early modern period. This course counts towards the Women and Gender Certificate and therefore we will be concerned with issues of gender and will read works (specifically manuscripts) written by women.
The first two hours of class will be spent in discussion about the readings and the last hour of class will be spent learning paleography and transcribing early modern manuscript recipe books.
This syllabus is subject to change by the professor
| Date | Readings | Assignments |
| Week 1
9/2 |
Introduction
Shakespeare Early Modern Handwriting (paleography)
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| Week 2
9/9 |
Macbeth
Leong and Pennell “Recipe Collections” Thirsk “Food in Shakespeare’s England” Dittman in Shakespearean Foodways, 41-54
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Group one: Critical commentary
Discussion presentation Begin work on Cambridge Handwriting site |
| Week 3
9/16 |
Merry Wives of Winsor
Sebek, ““Wine and sugar of the best and the fairest”: Canary, the Canaries, and the Global in Windsor” in Culinary Shakespeare, 53-72
Wall, selections from Staging Domesticity (Chapter One) Pennell “Perfecting Practice”
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Group two: Critical commentary
Discussion presentation Begin work on Cambridge Handwriting site/transcriptions
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| Week 4
9/23 |
Antony and Cleopatra
Parolin “Cloyless Sauce…”Holland, Peter. “Feasting and Starving: Staging Food in Shakespeare.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 145 (2009): 11–28.
Field “Many hands hands…”
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Group one: Critical commentary
Discussion presentation Transcription assignment |
| Week 5
9/30 |
Titus Andronicus
Goldstein “The Cook and the Cannibal: Titus Andronicus and the New World”
Templeman, Sally. “’What’s This? Mutton?’: , Food, Bodies, and Inn-Yard Performance Spaces in Early Shakespearean Drama”
Goldstein “How to eat a book: Ann Fanshawe and manuscript recipe culture”
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Group two: Critical commentary
Discussion presentation Transcription assignment: Folger MS Va430, Mary Grenville on Dromio |
| Week 6
10/7 |
Participate in the Folger/EMROC Transcribaton, Folger MS v.b.366: “Receipt booke of Rebeckah Winche,” | |
| Week 7
10/14 |
Twelfth Night
Applebaum “Aguecheek’s Beef” Goldstein “Shakespeare and Food Studies” Doring Culinary Shakespeare, 204-231 Writing an annotated bibliography and an abstract
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Group one: Critical commentary
Discussion presentation Transcription assignment: Folger MS Va430, Mary Grenville on Dromio |
| Week 8
10/21
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Henry IV, part I
HenryV
Lemon, Culinary Shakespeare, 148-75 Parolin Culinary Shakespeare, 28-52 Albala “Cooking as Research Methodology” Writing the conference paper
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Group two: Critical commentary
Discussion presentation Transcription assignment: Folger MS Va430, Mary Grenville on Dromio |
| Week 9
10/28 |
The Tempest
Lupton Culinary Shakespeare 259-291 Fumerton “Consuming the Void” |
Group one and two: Critical commentary
Discussion presentation Transcription assignment Folger MS Va430, Mary Grenville on Dromio |
| Week 10
11/4 |
Writing Workshop | Abstract and Annotated Bibliography (15 sources minimum Due
Transcription assignment: Folger MS Va430, Mary Grenville on Dromio |
| Week 11
11/18 |
Writing Workshop | Conference paper draft due 6-8 pages
Transcription assignment: Folger MS Va430, Mary Grenville on Dromio |
| Week 12
11/25 |
Writing Workshop | Transcription assignment: Folger MS Va430, Mary Grenville on Dromio |
| Week 13
12/2 |
Class Conference | |
| Week 14
12/9 |
Cooking with Renaissance Recipes | All final transcriptions due |
| Finals Week
Monday 12/14 |
Final paper with revised abstract and bibliography (25 sources minimum) due via Blackboard |
Assignments
Critical Commentaries (4) 350 words; 20%
Transcriptions: 15%
Discussion Presentation (2-3): 5%
Conference paper draft; Due 11/18: 5%
Conference presentation; 12/2 and 12/9: 5%
Final paper, Abstract, Annotated Bibliography; Due 12/14: 50%
Text: Norton Shakespeare
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