Popular Puppet Theatre in Europe, 1800 1914 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521616157)

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.

Author: John McCormick, Bennie Pratasik
ISBN-10: 0521616158
ISBN-13: 9780521616157
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/04/2005
Pages: 268
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.56d