TY  - BOOK
AU  - Karim - Cooper, Farah.
TI  - Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance drama
SN  - 9780748619931
U1  - 646.72 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan
KW  - Beauty, Personal, in literature
KW  - Cosmetics
KW  - Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
KW  - Beauty, Personal
N1  - 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
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