Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance drama/ Farah Karim-Cooper.

Acknowledgements;
List of Illustrations;
Chapter 1: Defining Beauty in Renaissance Culture;
I. 'Beauty's red and virtue's white': Treatises on Beauty;
II. The Poetry of Love, Beauty and Courtship;
III. Beauty in Pictures: Plays and Emblem Books;
Chapter 2: Early Modern Cosmetic Culture;
I. 'The Devil's craft': The Opposition to Cosmetics;
II. 'She Shal Appeare to be the Age of Fifteene Yeares';
III. Painting the Queen;
Chapter 3: Cosmetic Restoration in Jacobean Tragedy;
I. 'The artificial shine': Painted Language;
II. Cosmetic Revenge Tragedy;
III. 'Dainty preserved flesh': Fetishising the Painted Body;
IV. Catholic Ritual and Cosmetics;
Chapter 4: John Webster and the Culture of Cosmetics;
I. Beautified and Heroic: Webster's Painted Ladies;
II. Rethinking Webster's Imagery; A. Cosmetics and Catholic Imagery; B. Cosmetics and Witchcraft;
Chapter 5: Jonson's Cosmetic Ritual;
I. 'Pieced Beauty': Cosmetics as Prosthetics;
II. Constructing Gender in Jonsonian Comedy;
III. Jonson and the Cosmetics Debate;
Chapter 6: Cosmetics and Poetics in Shakespearean Comedy;
I. Painting Players;
II. Beautifying Poetic Drama;
Chapter 7: 'Deceived with ornament': Shakespeare's Venice;
I. Cosmetic Materials in The Merchant of Venice;
II. Cosmetic Symbolism and Othello;
Chapter 8: 'Flattering Unction': Cosmetics in Hamlet;
I. Appearances and Realities: Painted Faces in Hamlet;
II. Mousetraps;
III. Cosmeticised bodies and the female interior; A. Inside Gertrude's Closet; B. Ophelia's Beautifying Craft; Epilogue;
Bibliography.