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The drama of the portrait : theater and visual culture in early modern Spain
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The drama of the portrait : theater and visual culture in early modern Spain

Author: Laura R Bass
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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"--Provided by publisher.
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Genre/Form: Historia
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Laura R Bass
ISBN: 9780271033044 0271033045
OCLC Number: 220420516
Description: xii, 180 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map, ports. ; 30 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Laura R. Bass.
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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"--Provided by publisher.

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