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| Author | : Heather Newton |
| Publisher | : Turner Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2022-07-26 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1684428602 |
*A 2022 FOREWORD REVIEWS BOOK AWARD FINALIST* A new novel by the award-winning author of Under the Mercy Trees. Famed puppeteer and master manipulator Walter Gray surprises his three daughters by announcing there is a fourth at his 80th birthday party. An incomplete paternity test—and a will that places a condition on each daughter’s inheritance—suggest that the missing daughter isn’t a figment of his dementia. Jane, the eldest, is tired of her father’s eccentricities. She remembers the scarcity of her childhood and doesn’t want another sister to share the birthright. Rosie, born out of wedlock, sees the missing sister as her key to acceptance as a full member of the puppeteer’s family. Cora, the youngest, born after Walter achieved fame and fortune, is most concerned with extricating herself from running Walter’s company so that she can pursue her own life. The sisters each knew a different version of their enigmatic father, but all grew up in the presence of fairy tales acted out with marionettes and shadow puppets. If they are to find the fourth daughter and claim the legacy their father has left them, the three must confront their fractured relationships with their father and each other. Infused with fairy tales that sometimes spill magic into the sisters’ real lives, The Puppeteer’s Daughters is a stunningly-woven family saga about the cost and rewards of claiming a creative life.
| Author | : Rahimidin Zahari |
| Publisher | : ITBM |
| Total Pages | : 124 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Puppet theater |
| ISBN | : 9674300023 |
| Author | : D. Anne Love |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 141 |
| Release | : 2012-05-29 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 144246626X |
Mouse works in the scullery at Dunston Manor, peeling onions, stirring the pots, sweeping the floors, and doing her best not to get into trouble with the fractious cook. Alone at night in the dark corner she calls home, she wishes for something wondrous to happen and dreams of a better life. But what chance does she have, a girl born with nothing, not even a proper name? Then Mouse sees a puppet play and knows at once what she must do. Somehow she must learn to make the puppets dance. Somehow she must become the puppeteer's apprentice. But the puppeteer is harboring some uncomfortable secrets, and Mouse doesn't know whether she has the courage it takes to fulfill her dreams. How Mouse finds her place in the world, and a very special name, is the heart of this thoroughly absorbing and remarkable story set in medieval England.
| Author | : Jay Holloway |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2008-08-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1409223086 |
This is an episodic collection of tales set in the mid twelfth century, in the last remaining independent Saxon monarchy in Norman England, due to a nifty legal loophole. Medieval tales of dark deeds, underhand dealings, and horrible tuneless wassailing to hideous wailing crumhornsA set of chronicles in which the King suffers visits from Short and Curly, the two mincing actors from the travelling show Theatre of the Absurd: Lorenz Lawne-Bowlyngge, the flamboyant interior designer: Dr Misaubin, the travelling apothecary and snake-oil man: the misguided owner of a henge-building franchise: Tull, the inventor of the Gardeners Claw: a money-grabbing Water-diviner: an itinerant Tiler: a bunch of homicidal German mercenaries: Joey Pantolooni, the leader of the worst circus on the planet, and many more.Here, for the first time together, are extracts from Wizard Prang's Journal, a chronicler clearly not in the same class as Samuel Pepys, together with the true catastrophic events behind each entry.
| Author | : Qian Qian |
| Publisher | : Funstory |
| Total Pages | : 877 |
| Release | : 2019-11-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1647575095 |
Once she transmigrated, she brought along her adorable baby, the battle concubine, and the trashy girl to fight against her selfish father. Feng Yu's life could only be described as wonderful!She thought that she would be able to bring her baby around the ancient times, but who would have thought that a cold and dark prince would suddenly appear in the middle of her path?Alright, then she will spar against him and see who can do what he wants!
| Author | : Joel Schechter |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2013-10-11 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1136412131 |
Bertolt Brecht turned to cabaret; Ariane Mnouchkine went to the circus; Joan Littlewood wanted to open a palace of fun. These were a few of the directors who turned to popular theatre forms in the last century, and this sourcebook accounts for their attraction. Popular theatre forms introduced in this sourcebook include cabaret, circus, puppetry, vaudeville, Indian jatra, political satire, and physical comedy. These entertainments are highly visual, itinerant, and readily understood by audiences. Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook follows them around the world, from the bunraku puppetry of Japan to the masked topeng theatre of Bali to South African political satire, the San Francisco Mime Troupe's comic melodramas, and a 'Fun Palace' proposed for London. The book features essays from the archives of The Drama Review and other research. Contributions by Roland Barthes, Hovey Burgess, Marvin Carlson, John Emigh, Dario Fo, Ron Jenkins, Joan Littlewood, Brooks McNamara, Richard Schechner, and others, offer some of the most important, informative, and lively writing available on popular theatre. Introducing both Western and non-Western popular theatre practices, the sourcebook provides access to theatrical forms which have delighted audiences and attracted stage artists around the world.
| Author | : Henryk Jurkowski |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2014-01-07 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1350315818 |
Henryk Jurkowski's seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art. This new edition of a classic brings the original text back to life, including four additional essays and a new introduction, edited and translated by leading puppetry scholar Penny Francis. Henryk Jurkowski's seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art. This new edition of a classic brings the original text back to life, including four additional essays and a new introduction, edited and translated by leading puppetry scholar Penny Francis.
| Author | : Mónica Brito Vieira |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2009-12-14 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9004181776 |
Commentators have traditionally constructed Hobbes's thinking on representation too narrowly, as a self-contained area of his political theory. This book challenges this orthodoxy of Hobbes scholarship, which owes less to Hobbes’s thought than to contemporary preconceptions of what counts as political thinking. In her powerful and original analysis, Mónica Brito Vieira mines neglected strands of Hobbes's theory of representation, and reinstates it in a much wider pattern of Hobbes’s theorizing about human thought and action in relation to widely varied images, roles and fictions. The result is a compelling portrait of how man's natural power to form representations through the imagination and artifice underpins his capacity to break away from nature, and fashion a world that best suits his needs.
| Author | : Therese Frey Steffen |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : African Americans in literature |
| ISBN | : 0195134400 |
Rita Dove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 and US poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, appeals to a broad public by means of readings, stage productions, and the media. This work is the first monographic investigation of this major African American author's writing. The book examines the linguistic devices through which Rita Dove shapes her transcultural spaces and places, understood as a fusion of cultural backgrounds that provide 'a home in art'. This work explores not only the vast range of Dove's thematic and formal means, but also her interest in crossing boundaries, be they geographical, racial, religious, or marked by class, gender or genre.
| Author | : Michael Buonanno |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 377 |
| Release | : 2014-04-04 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1476615004 |
This study analyzes the folkloric genres that comprise the repertoire of the marionette theater in Sicily. Here, epic, farce, saints' lives, bandits' lives, fairytales, Christian myth, and city legend offer the vehicles by which puppeteers comment upon, critique--perhaps even negotiate--the relationships among the major classes of Sicilian society: the aristocracy, the people, the clergy and the Mafia. The lynchpin of the repertoire is the Carolingian Cycle and, in particular, a contemporary version of The Song of Roland known in Sicily as The Death of the Paladins, a text which illustrates the means by which the Carolingian heroes--Charlemagne, Roland, Renaud, Ganelon, and Angelica--augment saints, bandits, Biblical figures and Sicilian folk heroes to provide the marionette theater its rhetorical function: the articulation and dissemination of the tools of Sicilian identity.
