Date: Sun,  7 May 2006 16:06:23 -0400
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] What is this in English?


Hi Mary and fellow Critters,


If I may be so bold, I'll paste a chunk of a paper I wrote on medieval, 
Renaissance, and Commonwealth English puppetry that touches upon this kind of 
puppet:

"In addition, Jurkowski dismisses forms of performance in which puppets are 
presented simply as amusing artifacts, as the English =93jigging puppets=94 (which 
can be found in the lower left-hand corner of Hogarth=92s Southwark Fair) and the 
French marionnettes =E0 la planchette were in Europe during the Middle Ages and 
the Renaissance. These puppets were =93made to dance=94 (Speaight, The History of 
the English Puppet Theatre 23) or to fight =93on the ground by a cord running 
through their breasts from the showman=92s knee to a vertical post,=94 leaving his 
hands free to play an instrument in order to provide a musical accompaniment to 
the performance; in Hogarth=92s engraving, however, the cord splits into two 
pieces that are simply attached to the end of board upon which they dance. 
Alternatively, the cord or cords could also be held, a method of control 
particularly popular when the figures were combatants rather than dancers (Baird 
65-66)."

Jurkowski was "dismissing" these forms, among several others, as examples of 
=93classic puppet theatre=94 (Jurkowski, A History of European Puppetry 11)


All the best,

Jamie Ashby

PhD Candidate: "Ideas in Motion: New Work Development at Puppetmongers Theatre 
Company" 
Graduate Centre for Study of Drama,
University of Toronto

Co-founder, PuppUTopiate: the *only* puppet company at the Univ. of Toronto



Quoting Angusson-AT-aol.com:

> This fellow wrote me also....
> In Baird's book, they are described as 'planchett' puppets. (Fr.) 
> I have no idea what we'd call them.
> 
> I'll send this along to him...
> 
> Fred T.
> 
> 
> > I should know the answer to this, but I don't.=A0 A fellow from Italy
> > has written to me asking what this type of puppet is called in
> > English.=A0 I uploaded the picture he sent here:
> > http://www.otherhandproductions.com/images/ballaballa.jpg
> > 
> > Thanks for your help.
> > Mary
> > 
> > 
> 
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