Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama

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.

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.