[Ansteorra] Puppets in Period

Paulette Doyle gwendolenmciver at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 14 15:15:39 PDT 2009


Lets see, where to begin You have your Marionettes, and you have your plain old hand puppet (Punch and Judy) There are loads of web pages out there.  Also in Indonesia and India you have Shadow puppets (fun to play with but take some skill, and a loud voice, to get right)I know they have really good puppets in Japan but haven't done that much research on them...yet.
As far as how they used puppets, The marionettes stated out doing passion plays, In churches because it was thought a human couldn't bring the "innocents" of the Virgin Mary, so they made "Little Marys" and other part to the play would have been done by marionettes as well . That is until the "clown" got introduced, then bawdy humor was soon to follow and out into the streets the puppets went. 
Then we get to Punch and Judy,(not my kind of plays) Very violent and adult based humor. 
Most all of the puppets would have been carved out of wood then painted. The hand puppets would have a cloth "glove"/body.
For marionettes Check out Italian puppets, some of the best looking puppets around.
For Punch and Judy, just type in Punch and Judy on your favorite search engine. 
As a "General" Rule is if it's mouth moves it ain't period. 

 Thanks
Gwen / Paulette
A Tame and Toothless Tabby can't produce an Lion's Roar.
H. Chapin




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From: Regan Caimbeul <regan.caimbeul at gmail.com>
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Subject: [Ansteorra] Puppets in Period

Please excuse the bandwidth..

I was wondering if anyone has information regarding puppets in period: what
kinds of puppets were used, how to make them, sample shows, or other
introduction-like stuff (yes, that's a technical term).

I think that I would LIKE to stick with the Tudor/Elizabethan period in
England.  However, information from other eras, and countries would also be
interesting.  This is just something new that I would like to learn about,
and I thought I would put some feelers out on the list and see what was out
there.

Thanks!

Rachel

-- 
If everything happened when and how we wanted, then nothing would be worth
waiting for...
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