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100 _aKarim - Cooper, Farah.
245 0 _aCosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance drama/
_cFarah Karim-Cooper.
260 _aEdinburgh:
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c2006.
300 _ax, 221 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
505 _aAcknowledgements; 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.
650 _aEnglish drama--Early modern and Elizabethan
650 _aBeauty, Personal, in literature
650 _aCosmetics
650 _aShakespeare, William, 1564-1616
650 _aBeauty, Personal
942 _cWB16