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Lauren Shook

is Assistant Professor of English at Texas Lutheran University where she teaches Shakespeare, British literature, composition, and service-learning courses. She is currently at work on a book called A Place at Shakespeare’s Table which explores issues of food insecurity in early modern England.
Cursing Coriolanus and combating cornhoarders
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Cursing Coriolanus and combating cornhoarders

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Coriolanus at the Lyceum / Cyrus C. Cuneo. 1901. Folger ART Box C972 no.1 (size XL)In 1608, famine plagued England. Preachers responded with sermons begging the gentry to show compassion for the poor, King James I responded with royal proclamations…