Download or read book Painted Faces on the Renaissance Stage written by Annette Drew-Bear and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She also shows that in Renaissance comedy, playwrights exploited the many bawdy meanings of fucus, or cosmetic paint, to dramatize that "theres knauery in dawbing.".