Date: Sun,  7 May 2006 17:12:59 -0400
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] What is this in English?


I'll have to leave this one for someone more familiar with American puppetry 
history, I'm afraid. From the way you describe them, they are certainly related 
formalistically, but whether there is an actual historical connection or not, I 
don't know. Sorry I can't be of more help!

Best,

Jamie


Quoting Mary Horsley <mphorsley-AT-earthlink.net>:

> 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
> Mechanicsville, VA.
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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 =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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