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207 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780099286394
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Publication date: Not specified
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In Shakespeare's Henry V the French lords quail at the thought of British soldiers, who eat like wolves and fight like devils after 'great meals of beef'. Two centuries later, eighteenth- century England rings to boisterous renderings of 'The Roas...
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207 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780099286394
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Publication date: Not specified
Description
In Shakespeare's Henry V the French lords quail at the thought of British soldiers, who eat like wolves and fight like devils after 'great meals of beef'. Two centuries later, eighteenth- century England rings to boisterous renderings of 'The Roas...