The drama of the portrait
Subtitle: theater and visual culture in early modern Spain
By: Laura R. Bass.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780271033044
Subjects: 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
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dramas of the portrait; title: Visual literacy and urban comedy; title: Stolen identities; title: Blood portraits; title: The powers and perils of doubles; title: Framing the margins on center stage.