1st Edition

Shakespeare in the Kitchen

By Marissa Nicosia Copyright 2026
290 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils of the table. Shakespeare in the Kitchen asks what Shakespeare’s works can tell us about Renaissance culinary recipes, and what these recipes can tell us about Shakespeare’s works. Marissa Nicosia explores how Shakespeare’s works reveal tensions not only within early modern... Read more

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Note on Transcription and Citation

Introduction - Cakes / Twelfth Night

Chapter 1 - Posset / Macbeth

Chapter 2 - Pear Pie / The Winter’s Tale

Chapter 3 - Syrup of Violets / Sonnet 12, Sonnet 99, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Chapter 4 - Strawberry Conserve /Othello

Chapter 5 - Orange Succade / Much Ado About Nothing

Chapter 6 -  Salad / Antony and Cleopatra

Chapter 7 - Capons / 1 Henry IV

Chapter 8 - Venison Pasty / As You Like It

Conclusion - Trout / The Tempest

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Marissa Nicosia is Associate Professor of Renaissance Literature at The Pennsylvania State University–Abington College, USA. She is the author of Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590–1660 (2023) and the public history website Cooking in the Archives.