Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama
Farah Karim-Cooper
Abstract
This study examines how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatise the cultural preoccupation with cosmetics. The author analyses contemporary tracts that address the then-contentious issue of cosmetic practice and identifies a ‘culture of cosmetics’, which finds its visual identity on the Renaissance stage. She also examines cosmetic recipes and their relationship to drama, as well as to the construction of early modern identities.
Keywords: Shakespeare, cosmetics, Renaissance, early modern identities, plays, cultural preoccupation, cosmetic recipes, cosmetic practice, culture of cosmetics, visual identity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2006 | Print ISBN-13: 9780748619931 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748619931.001.0001 |
