We know from performance records that Shakespeare attended several official State Banquets but was he just the hired entertainment, there to put on a play and leave, or was he allowed to be a guest at the lavish dinners as well? And what were the standard aspects of a royal banquet in the 16th century that he would have seen and heard as he stood in the rooms at Whitehall or Hampton Court Palace? Our guest, Julia Lupton, is here to take us inside the State Banquet as Shakespeare would have known it.