TY - BOOK AU - Karim-Cooper,Farah TI - Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama SN - 9781474452724 AV - PR646 .K37 2019 U1 - 822.3093561 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Beauty, Personal, in literature KW - Cosmetics KW - History KW - English drama KW - 17th century KW - History and criticism KW - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474452731 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474452731 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474452731/original ER -