{"product_id":"the-drama-of-the-portrait-theater-and-visual-culture-in-early-modern-spain-9780271033044","title":"The Drama of the Portrait  Theater and Visual","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamines 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bass has interwoven detailed research in Spanish art history, treatises on painting, and the social history of portraiture with illuminating readings of specific plays to present an enormously valuable perspective on a quintessential art form of the baroque.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Emilie L. Bergmann,University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Despite the very complex ideas at work here, and the ambitious reach of the project, Bass’s prose is limpid and highly accessible. While \u003ci\u003eThe Drama of the Portrait \u003c\/i\u003eis a tremendous contribution to both visual and literary studies in the field, it will also help disseminate this new and sophisticated approach to the \u003ci\u003ecomedia\u003c\/i\u003e to a broad audience. The richly appealing book, with its over sixty sumptuous illustrations (many of them in color), itself makes a persuasive case for the seductiveness of the visual image.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Barbara Fuchs \u003ci\u003eRenaissance Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Laura Bass’s] erudite, innovative, elegantly written, and—it should be mentioned—beautifully illustrated monograph is an essential contribution to studies of classical Spanish theatre and of early modern Spanish culture in general.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Donald R. Larson \u003ci\u003eIberoamericana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Laura R. Bass’s work] explores the drama of the portrait reenacted in seventeenth-century Spanish theater as a historical and cultural chapter of an ideal history of responses to human likeness. . . . Through the study of selected plays interwoven with visual images, crossed with the analysis of specific paintings, understood in the wider context of art theory and of social, political, and economic history, Bass gives a striking reading of the practice and culture of portraiture seen through the lens of theater as shaping the Spanish ideal of monarchy at the same time that it reveals the underlying anxiety about its crisis.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Diane H. Bodart \u003ci\u003eArt Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Susan L. Fischer \u003ci\u003eBulletin of Spanish Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Dramas of the Portrait\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.\tVisual Literacy and Urban Comedy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.\tStolen Identities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.\tBlood Portraits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.\tThe Powers and Perils of Doubles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.\tFraming the Margins on Center Stage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcluding Reflections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036864348503,"sku":"9780271033044","price":82.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271033044.jpg?v=1750932786","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-drama-of-the-portrait-theater-and-visual-culture-in-early-modern-spain-9780271033044","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}