Cosmetics In Shakespearean And Renaissance Drama

This 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.

• | Author: Farah Karim-Cooper
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 03, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1474452728
• | ISBN-13: 9781474452724