The Drama of the Portrait : Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain

Pennsylvania State University Press

The Drama of the Portrait Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain\nby Laura R. Bass\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Laura R. Bass\nTitle: The Drama of the Portrait Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literature: history and criticism\nPublisher: Penn State University\nPublication year: 2009\nISBN-13: 9780271033044\nISBN-10: 0271033045\nRRP: \u00A391.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nExamines 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.\n\nExamines theater and portraiture as interrelated social practices in seventeenth-cen.