TY - BOOK ID - 17533706 TI - Popular puppet theatre in Europe, 1800-1914 AU - McCormick, John AU - Pratasik, Bennie PY - 1998 SN - 0521454131 9780521454131 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Puppet theater KW - -Puppet theater KW - -#VCV monografie 1999 KW - Puppet shows KW - Puppetry KW - Puppets and puppet-plays KW - Theatrical science KW - anno 1910-1919 KW - anno 1900-1909 KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - Europe KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Puppet theater - Europe - History - 19th century. KW - Puppet theater - Europe - History - 20th century. KW - #VCV monografie 1999 KW - Theater KW - Puppet theater - History KW - Théâtre de marionnettes KW - Mise en scène KW - Europe. KW - Théâtre de marionnettes KW - Mise en scène UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17533706 AB - 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. ER -