Shakespeare Speaker Series: From Manuscript to Cookhouse: Shakespearean Food

How can examining early modern recipes and food traditions help us attain a deeper understanding of Shakespeare’s plays and their cultural contexts?

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In “From Manuscript to Cookhouse: Shakespearean Food,” Prof. Keri Behre will discuss food, drink, and consumption in Shakespeare’s time while exploring the occasionally surprising ways that food and language continue to intertwine as complex and nuanced modalities for the transmission of culture today.

Keri Behre is Teaching Assistant Professor of English at Portland State University. She teaches and publishes on food in Renaissance drama and women’s manuscripts.

This talk is free and open to all. Please register below.

Thursday, February 15, 2024
12:00 p.m.
Lincoln Studio Theater
Portland State University
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This event is part of Shakespeare’s First Folio: 1623–2023, a public humanities project staged by Portland State University and other regional arts organizations from September 2023 through May 2024.