Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations ; 1. Defining Beauty in Renaissance Culture; 2. Early Modern Cosmetic Culture; 3. Cosmetic Restoration in Jacobean Tragedy; 4: John Webster and the Culture of Cosmetics; 5. Jonson’s Cosmetic Ritual; 6. Cosmetics and Poetics in Shakespearean Comedy; 7. ‘Deceived with ornament’: Shakespeare’s Venice; 8. ‘Flattering Unction’: Cosmetics in Hamlet; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.