Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance drama / Farah Karim-Cooper.
Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance drama / Farah Karim-Cooper.
Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance drama / Farah Karim-Cooper.
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Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2006.
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N822.30935/4
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English
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Physical content
x, 221 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Defining beauty in Renaissance culture -- Ch. 2. Early modern cosmetic culture -- Ch. 3. Cosmetic restoration in Jacobean tragedy -- Ch. 4. John Webster and the culture of cosmetics -- Ch. 5. Jonson's cosmetic ritual -- Ch. 6. Cosmetics and poetics in Shakespearean comedy -- Ch. 7. 'Deceived...
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Publisher
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2006.
Place of Publication
Scotland
Date Published
c2006.
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Summary
"This original study examines how the plays of Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists reflect and engage with the early modern discourse of cosmetics." "Reading a wide range of early modern texts preoccupied with the subject of beautification, Farah Karim-Cooper identifies a 'culture of cosmetics' that finds its visual identity on the Renaiss...
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Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance drama / Farah Karim-Cooper.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-212) and index.
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c2006.
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N822.30935/4
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74VKv0EAoXLy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKv0EAoXLy
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ISBN
0748619933 (hbk.)
9780748619931 (hbk.)
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822.3093561
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991021672029702626
