Portraits in Early Modern English Drama: Visual Culture, Play-Texts, and Performances (1st edition.)

'Portraits in Early Modern English Drama' studies the complex web of interconnections that grows out of the presentation of portraits as props in early modern English drama.

Emanuel Stelzer considers this theory from the Elizabethan age up to the closing of the theatres.

This book examines how the dramatic text and the subjectivities of the dramatis personae are shaped and changed through the process of observation and interpretation of pictures in the dramatic actions and dialogues.

Unlike any previous study, it confronts when a portrait is clearly meant not to be a miniature.

This also has bearings on the effect of the picture on the audience and in terms of genre expectation.