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Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 17:00:39 -0400
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] What is this in English?



Would these Planchette puppets be a predecessor to the Appalachian
Limberjack dolls made to dance on a wooden paddle and also used as musical
accompaniant?

Mary
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> [Original Message]
> From: Jamie Ashby <jamie.ashby-AT-utoronto.ca>
> To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org>
> Date: 5/7/2006 4:07:01 PM
> 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 “jigging puppets”
(which 
> can be found in the lower left-hand corner of Hogarth’s Southwark Fair)
and the 
> French marionnettes à la planchette were in Europe during the Middle Ages
and 
> the Renaissance. These puppets were “made to dance” (Speaight, The
History of 
> the English Puppet Theatre 23) or to fight “on the ground by a cord
running 
> through their breasts from the showman’s knee to a vertical post,”
leaving his 
> hands free to play an instrument in order to provide a musical
accompaniment to 
> the performance; in Hogarth’s 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 
> “classic puppet theatre” (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.  A fellow from Italy
> > > has written to me asking what this type of puppet is called in
> > > English.  I uploaded the picture he sent here:
> > > http://www.otherhandproductions.com/images/ballaballa.jpg
> > > 
> > > Thanks for your help.
> > > Mary
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
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