The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 18.0556 Saturday, 25 August 2007
From: William Godshalk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 22 Aug 2007 17:01:39 -0400
Subject: 18.0553 Elizabethan Dining
Comment: Re: SHK 18.0553 Elizabethan Dining
>V. Kerry Inman writes:
>
>I grew up in a mill town in which all the mills let out at noon for an
hour
>and schools did as well. Our family had dinner together every noon and
then
>went back to school or work. Is this perhaps the Elizabethan practice
as well?
I grew up in Bangor, PA, and we called the noon meal "dinner" and the
evening meal "supper." However, the noon meal was really only a snack --
a sandwich and a drink. Supper is when we ate heartily. Shakespeare's
"Thou hast nor youth nor age, But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep,
Dreaming on both" would apparently refer to an afternoon nap.
Bill
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