The drama of the portrait : theater and visual culture in early modern Spain / Laura R. Bass

Author:: Bass, Laura R., 1965-
Published:: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2008]
Copyright Date:: ©2008
Physical Description:: xii, 180 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, portraits ; 30 cm

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Contents:

Dramas of the portrait -- Visual literacy and urban comedy -- Stolen identities -- Blood portraits -- The powers and perils of doubles -- Framing the margins on center stage.

Summary:

"Examines theater and portraiture as interrelated social practices in seventeenth-century Spain. Features visual images and cross-disciplinary readings of selected plays that employ the motif of the painted portrait to key dramatic and symbolic effect"--Provided by publisher.

Subject(s):

Spanish drama—Classical period, 1500-1700—History and criticism
Literature and society—Spain—History—16th century
Literature and society—Spain—History—17th century
Art and literature—Spain—History—16th century
Art and literature—Spain—History—17th century

ISBN:

9780271033044 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271033045 (cloth : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-170) and index.

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