Chapter 2. “Wine and sugar of the best and the fairest”: Canary, the Canaries, and the Global in Windsor

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. PART 1: LOCAL AND GLOBAL
5. Chapter 1. “The poor creature small beer”: Princely Autonomy and Subjection in 2 Henry IV 21
6. Chapter 2. “Wine and sugar of the best and the fairest”: Canary, the Canaries, and the Global in Windsor 41
7. Chapter 3. So Many Strange Dishes: Food, Love, and Politics in Much Ado about Nothing 57
8. PART 2: BODY AND STATE
9. Chapter 4. Fluid Mechanics: Shakespeare’s Subversive Liquors 75
10. Chapter 5. Feeding on the Body Politic: Consumption, Hunger, and Taste in Coriolanus 97
11. Chapter 6. Sacking Falstaff 113
12. PART 3: THEATER AND COMMUNITY
13. Chapter 7. Cynical Dining in Timon of Athens 135
14. Chapter 8. Feasting and Forgetting: Sir Toby’s Pickle Herring and the Lure of Lethe 157
15. Chapter 9. Shakespeare’s Messmates 179
16. Chapter 10. Room for Dessert: Sugared Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of Dwelling 199
17. Notes 225
18. About the Contributors 275
19. Index 279