Face Painting in Ben Jonson's Epicene

• 作者: 李长寅
• 来源期刊: 海外英语（上）
• 学科: 文学
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（1）
• 所属期刊栏目: 中外文学文化研究
• 页码范围: 205-208
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: I106
• 语种: 中文

摘要

Jonson's painted creatures have many fellows in other plays of the period, but no playwright uses cosmetics so extensive-ly as Jonson. This paper explores the face painting in one of his plays Epicene, or the Silent Woman from the perspective of New His-toricism. It analyzes the early modern canon of beauty and how women in Epicene follow the canon to beautify themselves, from Jon-son's description the general ideas of his attitudes on face-painting are given. The essay integrates the historical context of the sev-enteenth century with Jonson's text to provide new insight into Jonson's sarcasm, humour and seventeenth century's cosmetic cul-ture.