Popular Puppet Theatre in Europe, 1800 1914
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521616158
ISBN-13
9780521616157
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 4th, 2005
Print length
268 Pages
Weight
528 grams
Dimensions
24.50 x 19.00 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
c 1900 to c 1909Puppetry, miniature & toy theatrePuppetry, miniature and toy theatre
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John McCormick and Bennie Pratasik provide a study of all aspects of puppetry in nineteenth-century Europe, including the stages, mechanical workings of the puppets, and the repertoire, covering a full range of countries and cultures. The book contains valuable and rare illustrations of puppets and theatres as well as informative diagrams.
Banned, marginalised, tolerated or neglected, puppets were a major form of entertainment of the subordinate classes in the nineteenth century. Showmen travelled from one end of Europe to the other bringing everything from biblical plays to melodramas and variety to audiences who experienced them as their only form of dramatic entertainment. The first study of its kind in English, Popular Puppet Theatre in Europe is less a history than a comparative study, highlighting a significant aspect of social and cultural history from a national and transnational perspective. It examines the showmen, their audiences, the performance context, and the technical and practical aspects of the puppets and their stages.
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