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| In [[All's Well That Ends Well]], Shakespeare presents a heroine who uses a secret recipe to perform a miraculous feat. In this Shakespearean play and others, common domestic tasks like seasoning, preserving, and distilling pose knotty intellectual questions about art, nature, knowledge, and time. In a lecture titled ''Recipes for Thought: Shakespeare and the Art of the Kitchen'' Wendy Wall celebrated Shakespeare's birthday by examining the world of recipe writing in early modern England in a lecture titled to show the unexpected ways that kitchen work presented forceful recipes for thought, both on and off the Shakespearean stage.
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| | === Public Program === |
| | [[Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: Recipes for Thought: Shakespeare and the Art of the Kitchen|Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Recipes for Thought: Shakespeare and the Art of the Kitchen"]] (April 25, 2011) |
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| This lecture was delivered in the Folger's Elizabethan Theatre on Monday, April 25, 2011. Wall was introduced by Folger Head of Reference Georgianna Ziegler.
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| Wendy Wall is Professor of English Literature at Northwestern University. She has a wide-range of interests, which include editorial theory, gender, national identity, the history of authorship, Renaissance poetry, food studies, housework, theatrical practice, and Jell-O. Professor Wall is author of ''Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance'' and ''Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama'', which was a finalist for the James Russell Lowell prize awarded by the MLA and a 2002 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Winner. A former trustee for the Shakespeare Association of America, she is currently at work on a book entitled ''Strange Kitchens: Knowledge and Taste in English Recipe Books, 1550–1750''.
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| The annual Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture is sponsored by the [[Folger Institute]].
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| [http://www.folger.edu/documents/Wendy%20Wall%20.mp3 Listen to the lecture]. | | [[Category:Folger Institute]][[Category:Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture]][[Category:Public programs]][[Category:2010-2011]] |