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Booze has occupied a top shelf in literature since the time of the Greeks. Along with all the philosophizing that goes on in Plato’s Symposium, there’s a shitload of drinking, since getting blasted on wine and debating the meaning of life was the whole point of a “symposium.” Exhibit B? The Bacchae, by Euripides, considered one of the greatest plays ever written. Not messing around, it makes Dionysus, the god of wine, its protagonist. 

Shakespeare got in on the action with Falstaff, the corpulent knight who shows up in three different plays hanging out at the Boar’s Head Tavern getting wasted on sherry. Drinking buddy of Prince Hal, future king, Falstaff got his own Orson Welles movie, Chimes at Midnight, and inspired... Read More