A Book of Marionettes

Aside, however, from this not insignificant value as an example to the actor of the future, the marionette has a positive and individual contribution to make in the field of dra...

“And when at length the deed was done, the play selected and the impatient shopman had brushed the rest into the gray portfolio, and the boy was forth again, a little late for d...

The third year of the Chicago puppets saw progress in many directions. The enthusiasm of the puppeteers had finally been aroused to the point where each contributed suggestions...

There is little doubt, despite much discussion, that the boisterous English Punch is a descendant of the puppet Pulcinello, brought over by travelling Italian showmen. Isaac d’I...

Then a little later came the wonderful shadows, now designated as _Ombres Françaises_, and shown at the Chat Noir, famous cabaret of Montmartre where gathered literary and artis...

Invariably the comic element appears in the puppet shows of all nations. In Germany and Austria the buffoon has always been a part of even the most tragic dramas, lending variet...

Vasari in his Life of _Il Cecca_ tells us that, “Among others, four most solemn public spectacles took place almost every year, one for each quarter of the city with the excepti...

In the Piazza of San Marco and in the Piazzetta until the fall of the Republic, so Malamani tells us, the castelli of the burattini were numerous during carnival time. In the ei...

The celebrated _Marionette Theatre of Munich Artists_, although inspired by the example of Papa Schmidt, was founded upon an altogether different basis and with other aims and i...

The Romans borrowed marionette traditions from the Greeks as they did many other art forms. There were large articulated statues of the gods and emperors in Rome. At Praeneste t...

He then directed his energies in an exactly opposite direction, toward simplification. The result was small, but very impressive dolls, carved out of wood and painted in neutral...

French theatrical puppets must have become established in the sixteenth century for we find them mentioned in a work entitled _Serées_ published 1584, by Guillaume Bouchet, juge...

These Turkish shadows are all centered around the hero, a sort of native Don Juan, a scamp with a good bit of mother wit; he is called “Karagheuz” (Black Eye). There are about s...

The story of the marionette is endless, in fact it has neither beginning nor end. The marionette has been everywhere and is everywhere. One cannot write of the puppets without s...

[1] Oh, ladies and gentlemen, patient sitters for portraits, what if the puppets do reverse the usual order of things? Must you not envy them? Think of having your portrait pain...

Religious plays, at Catania, 77–78; in Spain, 78; revocation of Edict of Nantes produced, 86–87; in Russia, 137–139; in Poland, 138–139; in England, 145; specially suited to mar...