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

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.

• | By (Author): Laura R. Bass (Author)
• | Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 16, 2009
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 196 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0271033045
• | ISBN-13: 9780271033044