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A Book of Marionettes

Chapter 3: Illustrations
By Helen Haiman Joseph
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About This Book

This book presents a comprehensive survey of marionette art, tracing their presence from antiquity through regional traditions in Asia, Italy and southern Europe, France, Germany, England, and America. It combines historical overview, descriptive accounts of styles and figures, and photographic and diagrammatic illustrations of puppet types and stages. Practical chapters offer guidance on construction and staging, patterns and stage diagrams, alongside discussions of toy theatres, puppet plays for children, and the mechanics of shadow and string manipulation. A bibliography and index support further research, while the author intersperses personal anecdotes about puppet-making, rehearsals, and the practical life of performers.

Illustrations

Shadow Figures Discovered in Egypt by Dr. Paul Kahle End-papers
Dryad and Two Fauns Frontispiece
Jointed Dolls or Puppets 18
Siamese Shadows 22
Javanese Wayang Figures 24
Javanese Rounded Marionettes 26
Wayang Figures from the Island of Bali 28
Burmese Puppets 30
Cingalese Puppets 32
East Indian Puppets 34
Turkish Shadow Figure of Karagheuz 36
Chinese Puppets 38
Chinese Shadow-play Figures 40
Chinese Shadow-play Figures 42
Old Japanese Puppet Heads 44
Japanese Print 48
A Wooden Italian Puppet 52
Mediæval Marionettes 54
Italian Figures used for Christmas Crib 56
Pulcinella in Italy 58
Italian Puppet Ballet 62
Wooden Spanish Puppets 78
George Sand’s Puppet Theatre at Nohant 92
Puppets of George Sand’s Theatre at Nohant 94
Puppets of Lemercier de Neuville 96
Tableau (Chat Noir) 98
Guignol and Gnafron 110
Marionette Theatre of Munich Artists 130
Marionettes of Richard Teschner, Vienna 134
Bohemian Puppets 136
Punch Hangs the Hangman 148
Old English Puppets 156
Gair Wilkinson and Assistant at Work on the Bridge of their Puppet Theatre 158
Marionettes Employed in Ceremonial Drama of the American Indians 166
Italian Marionette Show 172
Marionettes at the Chicago Little Theatre 174
The Death of Chopin 178
Shadowy Waters 182
Tony Sarg’s Marionettes behind the Scenes 184
A Trick Puppet 188
German Puppet Show for Children 196
English Toy Theatre 200
Patterns for the Marionette Body Drawn by Max Kalish 222
Diagrams for the Construction of a Marionette Stage 226