Karim - Cooper, Farah. <br/><br/>
Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance drama/ 
Farah Karim-Cooper. 
 - Edinburgh:  Edinburgh University Press,  2006. 
 - x, 221 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Acknowledgements; <br/>List of Illustrations; <br/>Chapter 1: Defining Beauty in Renaissance Culture;<br/>I. 'Beauty's red and virtue's white': Treatises on Beauty; <br/>II. The Poetry of Love, Beauty and Courtship; <br/>III. Beauty in Pictures: Plays and Emblem Books; <br/>Chapter 2: Early Modern Cosmetic Culture; <br/>I. 'The Devil's craft': The Opposition to Cosmetics; <br/>II. 'She Shal Appeare to be the Age of Fifteene Yeares'; <br/>III. Painting the Queen; <br/>Chapter 3: Cosmetic Restoration in Jacobean Tragedy; <br/>I. 'The artificial shine': Painted Language;<br/>II. Cosmetic Revenge Tragedy; <br/>III. 'Dainty preserved flesh': Fetishising the Painted Body; <br/>IV. Catholic Ritual and Cosmetics; <br/>Chapter 4: John Webster and the Culture of Cosmetics; <br/>I. Beautified and Heroic: Webster's Painted Ladies; <br/>II. Rethinking Webster's Imagery; A. Cosmetics and Catholic Imagery; B. Cosmetics and Witchcraft; <br/>Chapter 5: Jonson's Cosmetic Ritual; <br/>I. 'Pieced Beauty': Cosmetics as Prosthetics; <br/>II. Constructing Gender in Jonsonian Comedy; <br/>III. Jonson and the Cosmetics Debate; <br/>Chapter 6: Cosmetics and Poetics in Shakespearean Comedy;<br/>I. Painting Players; <br/>II. Beautifying Poetic Drama; <br/>Chapter 7: 'Deceived with ornament': Shakespeare's Venice; <br/>I. Cosmetic Materials in The Merchant of Venice; <br/>II. Cosmetic Symbolism and Othello; <br/>Chapter 8: 'Flattering Unction': Cosmetics in Hamlet; <br/>I. Appearances and Realities: Painted Faces in Hamlet; <br/>II. Mousetraps; <br/>III. Cosmeticised bodies and the female interior; A. Inside Gertrude's Closet; B. Ophelia's Beautifying Craft; Epilogue; <br/>Bibliography. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780748619931 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan<br/>Beauty, Personal, in literature<br/>Cosmetics<br/>Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616<br/>Beauty, Personal
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>646.72  / KAR/C