Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance drama
Farah Karim-Cooper (Author)
This original study examines how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatise the cultural preoccupation with cosmetics. Farah Karim-Cooper analyses contemporary tracts that address the then-contentious issue of cosmetic practice and identifies a 'culture of cosmetics', which finds its visual identity on the Renaissance stage. She also examines cosmetic recipes and their relationship to drama as well as to the construction of early modern identities. Key Features. The only in-depth study of cosmetic culture and its visual representation on the Renaissance stage Provides original views of Shakespearean and Renaissance drama by examining its preoccupation with cosmetic ingredients, metaphors and the staging of painted beauty offers insight into Renaissance women's cosmetic practice by uncovering a wide range of ingredients, methods and materials used in the construction of cosmetics Includes numerous cosmetic recipes found in early modern printed books, never before published in a modern edition
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9780748627127, 9780748652204, 9781280953194, 9786610953196, 074862712X, 0748652205, 1280953195, 6610953198
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Cover
Contents
Preface
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1 Defining Beauty in Renaissance Culture
Beautys red and virtues white58; Treatises on Beauty
The Poetry of Love44; Beauty and Courtship
Beauty in Pictures58; Plays and Emblem Books
Chapter 2 Early Modern Cosmetic Culture
The Devils craft58; The Opposition to Cosmetics
She Shal Appeare to be the Age of Fifteene Yeares
Painting the Queen
Conclusion
Chapter 3 Cosmetic Restoration in Jacobean Tragedy
The artificial shine58; Painted Language
Cosmetic Revenge Tragedy
Dainty preserved flesh58; Fetishising the Painted Body
Catholic Ritual and Cosmetics
Conclusion
Chapter 4 John Webster and the Culture of Cosmetics
Beautified and Heroic58; Websters Painted Ladies
Rethinking Websters Imagery
Conclusion
Chapter 5 Jonsons Cosmetic Ritual
Pieced beauty58; Cosmetics as Prosthetics
Constructing Gender in Jonsonian Comedy
Jonson and the Cosmetics Debate
Ingredient Culture
Conclusion
Chapter 6 Cosmetics and Poetics in Shakespearean Comedy
Painting Players
Beautifying Poetic Drama
Chapter 7 Deceived with ornament58; Shakespeares Venice
Cosmetic Materials in The Merchant of Venice
Cosmetic Symbolism and Othello
Conclusion
Chapter 8 Flattering Unction58; Cosmetics in Hamlet
Appearances and Realities58; Painted Faces in Hamlet
Mousetraps
Cosmeticised Bodies and the Female Interior
Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Last Page
English
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