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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