It takes the average reader 5 hours and 36 minutes to read Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama by Karim-Cooper Farah Karim-Cooper
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Revised and updated critical survey of the field of cosmetics and adornment studiesThis 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.Key FeaturesOffers a new analysis of the construction of whiteness as a racial signifierProvides an original insight into women's cosmetic practice through an exploration of ingredients, methods and materials used to create cosmetics and the perception of make up in Shakespeare's timeIncludes numerous cosmetic recipes from the early modern period found in printed books and never published in a modern edition
Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama by Karim-Cooper Farah Karim-Cooper is 333 pages long, and a total of 84,249 words.
This makes it 112% the length of the average book. It also has 103% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 40 minutes to read Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama aloud.
Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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