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Author:   Farah Karim-Cooper
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9780748619931

ISBN 10:   0748619933
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   06 July 2006
Audience:   Adult education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Further / Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Chapter 1: Defining Beauty in Renaissance Culture; I. 'Beauty's red and virtue's white': Treatises on Beauty; II. The Poetry of Love, Beauty and Courtship; III. Beauty in Pictures: Plays and Emblem Books; Chapter 2: Early Modern Cosmetic Culture; I. 'The Devil's craft': The Opposition to Cosmetics; II. 'She Shal Appeare to be the Age of Fifteene Yeares'; III. Painting the Queen; Chapter 3: Cosmetic Restoration in Jacobean Tragedy; I. 'The artificial shine': Painted Language; II. Cosmetic Revenge Tragedy; III. 'Dainty preserved flesh': Fetishising the Painted Body; IV. Catholic Ritual and Cosmetics; Chapter 4: John Webster and the Culture of Cosmetics; I. Beautified and Heroic: Webster's Painted Ladies; II. Rethinking Webster's Imagery; A. Cosmetics and Catholic Imagery; B. Cosmetics and Witchcraft; Chapter 5: Jonson's Cosmetic Ritual; I. 'Pieced Beauty': Cosmetics as Prosthetics; II. Constructing Gender in Jonsonian Comedy; III. Jonson and the Cosmetics Debate; Chapter 6: Cosmetics and Poetics in Shakespearean Comedy; I. Painting Players; II. Beautifying Poetic Drama; Chapter 7: 'Deceived with ornament': Shakespeare's Venice; I. Cosmetic Materials in The Merchant of Venice; II. Cosmetic Symbolism and Othello; Chapter 8: 'Flattering Unction': Cosmetics in Hamlet; I. Appearances and Realities: Painted Faces in Hamlet; II. Mousetraps; III. Cosmeticised bodies and the female interior; A. Inside Gertrude's Closet; B. Ophelia's Beautifying Craft; Epilogue; Bibliography.

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A terrific and very well researched project. -- Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University Provides a fascinating perspective on how early modern culture dealt with the growth and transformation of cosmetics into an 'industry' and offers exciting insight into how cosmetic textual imagery might have been interpreted in stage performance. -- Tom Healy, Birkbeck College, University of London Karim-Cooper's rich and suggestive interpretations of the plays that she takes in hand convincingly demonstrate the relevance of the period's cosmetic culture to theater and performance, and make this book required reading for critics and students of the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage. Comparative Drama A terrific and very well researched project. Provides a fascinating perspective on how early modern culture dealt with the growth and transformation of cosmetics into an 'industry' and offers exciting insight into how cosmetic textual imagery might have been interpreted in stage performance. Karim-Cooper's rich and suggestive interpretations of the plays that she takes in hand convincingly demonstrate the relevance of the period's cosmetic culture to theater and performance, and make this book required reading for critics and students of the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage.

A terrific and very well researched project. -- Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University Provides a fascinating perspective on how early modern culture dealt with the growth and transformation of cosmetics into an 'industry' and offers exciting insight into how cosmetic textual imagery might have been interpreted in stage performance. -- Tom Healy, Birkbeck College, University of London Karim-Cooper's rich and suggestive interpretations of the plays that she takes in hand convincingly demonstrate the relevance of the period's cosmetic culture to theater and performance, and make this book required reading for critics and students of the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage. Comparative Drama A terrific and very well researched project. Provides a fascinating perspective on how early modern culture dealt with the growth and transformation of cosmetics into an 'industry' and offers exciting insight into how cosmetic textual imagery might have been interpreted in stage performance. Karim-Cooper's rich and suggestive interpretations of the plays that she takes in hand convincingly demonstrate the relevance of the period's cosmetic culture to theater and performance, and make this book required reading for critics and students of the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage.

Author Information

Farah Karim-Cooper is the Globe Education Lecturer at Shakespeare's Globe and Visiting Research Fellow of King's College, London. Her research interests lie generally in the field of Renaissance drama and culture, and specifically, in material culture.

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