The Victorian Marionette Theatre (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture)

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On this fascinating and colorful book, researcher and performer John McCormick specializes in the marionette world of Victorian Britain between its heyday after 1860 and its waning years from 1895 to 1914. Situating the wealthy and diverse pupper theatre within the context of entertainment culture, he explores both the aesthetics of those dancing dolls and their sociocultural significance of their life and time. The history of marionette performances is interwoven with live-actor performances and with all the gamut of annual fairs, portable and permanent theatres, music halls, magic lantern shows, waxworks, panoramas, and sideshows. McCormick has drawn upon advertisements within the Era, an entertainment paper, between the 1860s and World War I, and articles within the World’s Fair, a paper for showpeople, within the first fifty years of the 20th century, in addition to interviews with descendants of the marionette showpeople and close examinations of the various surviving puppets. McCormick begins his study with an exploration of the Victorian marionette theatre within the context of other theatrical events of the day, with proprietors and puppeteers, and with the venues where they performed. He further

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