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Marionettes, masks and shadows

Chapter 48: BIBLIOGRAPHY
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A practical manual and introduction to puppet theatre that combines a concise history of puppet, mask, and shadow traditions with step-by-step instructions for building stages, marionettes, masks, scenery, and props. It offers guidance on lighting, training performers, and presenting productions, and explains techniques for cut-out and human shadow plays, pantomime, music, and dance. Illustrated diagrams, sample plays and production photographs support the how-to material, with a bibliography and index.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A List of Books Suggested for the Making of Marionette Plays
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  Humorous Tales 245
  Heroic Tales 246
  Tales of Adventure 247
  Fairy Tales 248
  Unclassified 249
A Short List of Reference Books on Costume 253
A Short List of Books on Marionettes 257
A Short List of Books That Contain Information on the Mask and Shadows  
  The Mask 261
  Shadows 262

LIST OF BOOKS SUGGESTED FOR THE MAKING OF MARIONETTE PLAYS

HUMOROUS TALES

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Carroll. Macmillan

Gulliver’s Travels, by Swift. Macmillan

Don Quixote, by Cervantes. Dodd

Peter and Wendy, by Barrie. Scribner

Just-So Stories, by Kipling. Doubleday

Uncle Remus, by Harris. Appleton

Tom Sawyer, by Clemens. Harper

Alice, Through the Looking Glass, by Carroll. Macmillan

Pinocchio, the Story of a Marionette, by Lorenzini. Ginn

Midsummer Night’s Dream, by Shakespeare. Edited by Rolfe, Am. Book Co., Hudson, Ginn

Rip Van Winkle, by Irving. Macmillan

Arabian Nights, by Colum. Macmillan

Rose and the Ring, by Thackeray, Stokes. Macmillan

Wind in the Willows, by Grahame. Scribner

Tales of Laughter, by Wiggin and Smith. Doubleday

HEROIC TALES

Sohrab and Rustum, by Arnold. Houghton

The Boys’ Iliad, by Perry. Macmillan

The Boys’ Odyssey, by Perry. Macmillan

Robin Hood, by Pyle. Scribner

The Tales of Troy and Greece, by Lang. Longmans

The Story of Roland, by Baldwin. Scribner

Brave Beowulf, Ed. Cartwright. Dutton

Joan of Arc, by Boutet de Monvel. Century

Ivanhoe, by Scott. Houghton

Daniel Boone, by White. Doubleday

Britain Long Ago, by Wilmot-Buxton. London: Harrap

The Book of King Arthur and his Noble Knights, by Macleod. Stokes

The Adventures of Ulysses, by Lamb. Ginn

The Story of the Cid, Ed. by Wilson. Lothrop

Stories of Charlemagne, by Church. Macmillan

Seven Champions of Christendom, by Cartwright. Dutton

Story of Sigurd, the Volsung, by Morris. Longmans

Robinson Crusoe, by Defoe. Harper, Houghton

Norse Stories Retold, by Mabie. Rand

TALES OF ADVENTURE

The Boy’s Percy, by Lanier. Scribner

The Black Arrow, By Stevenson. Scribner

William Tell, by Schmidt & Marshall. McClurg, Dutton

Treasure Island, by Stevenson. Scribner

Men of Iron, by Pyle. Harper

Wonder Book, by Hawthorne. Houghton

Otto of the Silver Hand, by Pyle. Scribner

The Boy’s Froissart, Ed. by Lanier. Scribner

Tales from the Alhambra, by Irving. Houghton

Story of the Canterbury Pilgrims, retold by Darton, by Chaucer. Stokes

The Lance of Kanana, by French. Lathrop

Spurs of Gold, by Greene. Little

The Golden Perch, by Hutchinson. Longmans

Captains Courageous, by Kipling. Doubleday

Book of Bravery, by Lanier. Scribner

The Last of the Mohicans, by Cooper. Holt

FAIRY TALES

Hans Christian Andersen, Tr. by Mrs. E. Lucas. Dutton

The Brothers Grimm, Tr. by Lucy Crane. Macmillan

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, by Lagerlöf. Doubleday

The Blue Bird, by Maeterlinck. Dodd

Water Babies, by Kingsley. Houghton

The Little Lame Prince, by Craik. Lippincott

Old Peter’s Russian Tales, by Ransome. Rand, McNally

Japanese Fairy Book, by Ozaki. Dutton

Æsop’s Fables, Ed. by Jacobs. Macmillan

Undine, by LaMotte Fouqué. Doubleday

Story of the Rheingold, by Chapin. Harper

UNCLASSIFIED

Little Women, by Alcott. Little

Bird’s Christmas Carol, by Wiggin. Houghton

Rip Van Winkle, by Irving. Macmillan

Oliver Twist, by Dickens. Scribner

Prince and the Pauper, by Clemens. Macmillan

The Christmas Carol, by Dickens. Macmillan

Heidi, by Spyri. Ginn. Houghton

Cricket on the Hearth, by Dickens. Rand

David Copperfield, by Dickens. Scribner

The Tempest, by Shakespeare, Ed. Rolfe. Amer. Bk. Co., Hudson, Ginn

The Merchant of Venice, by Shakespeare, Ed. Rolfe. Amer. Bk. Co., Hudson, Ginn

King of the Golden River, by Ruskin. Page

Master Skylark, by Bennett. Century

Gabriel and His Hour Book, by Stein. Page

The Piper, by Peabody. Houghton

Evangeline, by Longfellow. Houghton

Story Telling Ballads, by Olcott. Houghton

Hiawatha, by Longfellow. Houghton

Lady of the Lake, by Scott. Houghton

Lays of Ancient Rome, by Macaulay. Houghton

The Piper of Hamelin, by Browning. Rand

A SHORT LIST OF REFERENCE BOOKS ON COSTUME

The Heritage of Dress, by Webb. London, E. Grant Richards

A Study of Costume, by Sage. Scribner

Chats on Costume, by Rhead. Stokes

Dress Design, by Hughes. Macmillan

Greek Dress, by Abrahams. London, John Murray

British Costume During 19 Centuries, by Ashdown. Edinburgh, T. C. & E. C. Jack

The History of Fashion in France, Tr. by Mrs. Hoey & M. Lillie. London, Scribner and Wetford

Costuming a Play, by Elizabeth Grimball & Rhea Wells. Century

Historic Dress in America, by McClellan. Jacobs

The Encyclopædia Britannica

A SHORT LIST OF BOOKS ON MARIONETTES

Heroes of the Puppet Stage, by Anderson. Harcourt

The Book of Marionettes, by Joseph. Huebsch

The Tony Sarg Marionette Book, McIsaacs. Greenburg

The Mask—Vols. I-VIII, by Craig

The Marionette, by Craig

There are also many excellent books on the subject of Marionettes in French, German, and Italian. These are very exhaustive studies, fully illustrated, that will repay investigation.

A SHORT LIST OF BOOKS THAT CONTAIN INFORMATION ON THE MASK AND SHADOWS

THE MASK

Masks and Demons, by Macgowan & Rosse. Harcourt

The Golden Bough, by Frazer. Macmillan

History of the Harlequinade, by Sand. Lippincott

Clowns, by Disher. Constable

Manners, Customs & Dress of the Middle Ages, by LaCroix. Appleton

The Theater of the Greek, by Donaldson. Macmillan

The Greek Theater, by Flickinger. University of Chicago

History of Classical Greek Literature, by Mahaffy. Macmillan

Noh, by Fenelossa & Pound. Knopf

Field Museum Guide—Part I, by Laufer. Field Museum

The NO Plays of Old Japan, by Stopes. Dutton

The NO Plays of Japan, by Waley. Knopf

Medicine-Men of the Apache, by Bourke

9th Annual Report, U. S. Bureau of American Ethnology

Tusayan Katcinas, by Fewkes

15th Annual Report, U. S. Bureau of American Ethnology

The Point Barrow Eskimo, by Murdoch

9th Annual Report, U. S. Bureau of American Ethnology

There are several excellent books on Masks in French, German, and Italian

SHADOWS

The Golden Bough, by Frazer. Macmillan

Field Museum Guide, by Laufer. Field Museum

The Book of Marionettes, by Joseph. Viking Press

A Book about the Theater, by Mathews. Viking Press

Masks and Demons, by Macgowan and Rosse. Harcourt

Very important work in this field has been done by the German writers, Georg Jacob, Otto Höver, Wilhelm Grube, and Hellmut Ritter.