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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Table of Contents:
- 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