Article: La imaginacion emblematica en el drama de Tirso de Molina.(Book Review)

La imaginacion emblematica en el drama de Tirso de Molina. By PABLO RESTREPO-GAUTIER. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta. 2001. 112 pp. $16.95. ISBN 0-404-63715-9.

Just as in much of the rest of Europe, emblems and other pictorial allegories (with or without accompanying inscriptio and/or subscriptio) were hugely popular in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Spain. Their ingenuity (like that of the conceit) might tax even the erudite and yet many became commonplaces whose meaning was immediately evident to minds thoroughly used to decoding visual images in a variety of everyday contexts. The emblema's popularity, but capacity to surprise, together with its visual appeal, ...

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