A Commonplace Book

Category: puppetry...

  • the puppet is a figure moved by human, and not mechanical, aid
  • glove puppets, rod puppets, shadow puppets, and string puppets or marionettes
  • primitive people made puppets before the invention of writing
  • wandering showmen presented slapstick, farce, and bristling phantasmagoria
  • Scarlatti and Hayden wrote operas especially for marionettes
  • puppet cabarets, some displaying breathtaking ingenuity, were given in private drawing rooms in the 19th century
  • Punch and Judy, Baby, Policeman, and Hangman
  • Jim Henson's Muppets
  • putting on a puppet show for a sick child
  • the appeal of the puppet lies nearer a primitive sense of magic (its origin) than most spectators realize

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