The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.1074 Monday, 28 June 1999.
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Date: Friday, 25 Jun 1999 07:12:37 -0500
Subj: Shakespeare's Pasty
[2] From: Scott Oldenburg <
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Date: Friday, 25 Jun 1999 10:56:42 -0700
Subj: Pasties
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From: Frank Whigham <
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Date: Friday, 25 Jun 1999 07:12:37 -0500
Subject: Shakespeare's Pasty
The ongoing discussion of pasties reminds me of the related passage in
Hamlet, where Pyrrhus becomes one:
Head to foot
Now is be total gules, horridly trick'd
With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons,
Bak'd and impasted with the parching streets,
That lend a tyrannous and a damned light
To their lord's murther. Roasted in wrath and fire,
And thus o'ersized with coagulate gore,
With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus
Old grandsire Priam seeks.
This description from the discourse of cooking chimes with other things
in the play, from the Ghost's posset and curd and vile crust, to Pyrrhus
mincing old Priam, to Polonius dining (rhyming with Pyrrhus) not where
he eats but where he is eaten.
What do folks think about this strand of cooking, eating, and food
references?
Frank Whigham
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From: Scott Oldenburg <
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Date: Friday, 25 Jun 1999 10:56:42 -0700
Subject: Pasties
This web page may of interest to those of you who are puzzled by UK/US
use of words like "pasties" and "football."
http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dgl3djb/ukus_text.html
Cheers,
Scott Oldenburg
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