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Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama / Farah Karim-Cooper.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) : 17 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474452724
  • 9781474452731
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822.3093561 23
LOC classification:
  • PR646 .K37 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
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
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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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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

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)