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Drama of the Portrait:

Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain
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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.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Dramas of the Portrait

1. Visual Literacy and Urban Comedy

2. Stolen Identities

3. Blood Portraits

4. The Powers and Perils of Doubles

5. Framing the Margins on Center Stage

Concluding Reflections

Notes

Works Cited

Index



“Laura R. Bass has written a beautiful and significant book: aesthetically pleasing in terms of the sixty-seven illustrations (a large number in colour) and the comprehensible scholarly style; and conceptually discerning in respect of the historical, material and theoretical readings of select plays interwoven with visual images, the thorough documentation in the accompanying notes, and the exhaustive bibliographical apparatus.”

—Susan L. Fischer, Bulletin of Spanish Studies

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