The culture of obesity in early and late modernity : body image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton / Elena Levy-Navarro.

New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

xi, 238 pages ; 22 cm

1st ed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-225) and index.

Towards a constructionist fat history -- A time before fat? gluttony in Piers Plowman -- Emergence of fatness defiant : Skelton at court -- Lean and mean : Shakespeare's criticism of thin privilege -- Boundless fat in Middleton's A game at chess -- Weigh me as a friend : Jonson's multiple constructions of the fat body.