Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama / / Farah Karim-Cooper.
Revised and updated critical survey of the field of cosmetics and adornment studiesThis revised edition examines how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatise the Renaissance preoccupation with cosmetics. Farah Karim-Cooper explores the then-contentious issue of female beauty and ide...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 17 B/W illustrations |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Defining Beauty in Renaissance Culture -- Chapter 2 Early Modern Cosmetic Culture -- Chapter 3 Cosmetic Restoration in Jacobean Tragedy -- Chapter 4 John Webster and the Culture of Cosmetics -- Chapter 5 Jonson's Cosmetic Ritual -- Chapter 6 Cosmetics and Poetics in Shakespearean Comedy -- Chapter 7 'Deceived with ornament': Shakespeare's Venice -- Chapter 8 'Flattering Unction': Cosmetics in Hamlet -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | Revised and updated critical survey of the field of cosmetics and adornment studiesThis revised edition examines how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatise the Renaissance preoccupation with cosmetics. Farah Karim-Cooper explores the then-contentious issue of female beauty and identifies a 'culture of cosmetics', which finds its visual identity on the early modern stage. She also examines cosmetic recipes and anti-cosmetic literature focusing on their relationship to drama in its representations of gender, race, politics and beauty.Key FeaturesOffers a new analysis of the construction of whiteness as a racial signifierProvides an original insight into women's cosmetic practice through an exploration of ingredients, methods and materials used to create cosmetics and the perception of make up in Shakespeare's timeIncludes numerous cosmetic recipes from the early modern period found in printed books and never published in a modern edition |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781474452731 9783110780420 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781474452731 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Farah Karim-Cooper. |