Beauty's Poisonous Properties. Shakespeare Studies | January 1, 1999| | COPYRIGHT 1999 Associated University Presses. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

IN THE FOURTH ACT of The Devil's Charter (1606), Barnabe Barnes portrays Lucretia Borgia entering "richly attired with a Phyal in her hand." In the midst of painting her face, she suddenly cries out in dismay at a burning sensation. The cosmetics contained in her vial have proven treacherous: "rancke poyson / Is ministred to bring me to my death, / I feele the venime boyling in my veines."(1) Reduced through death to an object, a receptacle for paints, Lucretia's body becomes twinned with the cosmetic vial that caused her demise. These poisoned props--paint, vial, and ...

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