Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance drama /

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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Karim-Cooper, Farah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2006.
Temas:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
1500-1600
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
Beauty, Personal, in literature.
Cosmetics > History.
Théâtre anglais > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Beauté corporelle dans la littérature.
Cosmétiques > Histoire.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
Beauty, Personal, in literature
Cosmetics
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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