Date: Sun,  7 May 2006 16:15:00 -0400
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] What is this in English?


Sorry. I should have worded that more clearly. Jurkowski argues that jigging 
puppets, planchette puppets, trick marionettes, and objects are *not* examples 
of "classic puppet theatre."


Take care,


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 Jamie Ashby <jamie.ashby-AT-utoronto.ca>:

> 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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