Puppets & “Popular” Culture
SHERSHOW, Scott Cutler
1995
Autor(es): SHERSHOW, Scott Cutler
Título: Puppets & “Popular” Culture
Publicação: New York: Cornell University Press, 1995
ISBN: 0-8014-8060-4
Assunto(s): Semiótica
Teatro de Marionetas -- Sociologia
Índice | Table of Contents | Table des Matières
List of Illustrations – vii
Acknowledgments – ix
Introduction – 1
CHAPTER ONE
Performing Objects in the "Theological” Theater – 13
“A Puppet Made by Gods”: Plato and the Hierarchy of Representation – 13
Mammets, Marmosets, and Marionettes: Iconophobia and the Embodied Sign – 22
CHAPTER TWO
Authorship and Culture in Early Modern England – 43
“In Despight of the Players”: Early Modern Puppetry and the "Popular” Voice – 44
“Puppets That Speake from Our Mouths”: Authors and Objects on the Early Modern Stage – 50
"The Puppet’s Part”: Cultural Hierarchy and Social Subordination – 66
“The Mouth of ’hem All”: The Tempest and Bartholomew Faire – 90
CHAPTER THREE
The Violence of Appropriation: From the Interregnum to the Nineteenth Century – 109
"Managers of Human Mechanism”: From “Popular” Puppetry to the “Legitimate” Stage – 111
"The Sacred and Politique Puppet-Play”: Puritans, Power, and the Performing Object – 123
“Borrowed Dress”: Henry Fielding and Charlotte Charke – 144
“Visions of Graver Puppetry”: Punch and Judy and Cultural Appropriation – 161
CHAPTER FOUR
Modern and Postmodern Puppets in Theory and in Practice – 183
“The Omnipotence of a Methodical Will": Performing Objects and the Theatrical Avant-Garde – 184
The Object of Signification: Vitalism, Semiotics, and the Puppet – 210
"No Strings on Me”: From Pinocchio to the Muppets – 222
Index – 243
Autor(es): SHERSHOW, Scott Cutler
Título: Puppets & “Popular” Culture
Publicação: New York: Cornell University Press, 1995
ISBN: 0-8014-8060-4
Assunto(s): Semiótica
Teatro de Marionetas -- Sociologia
Índice | Table of Contents | Table des Matières
List of Illustrations – vii
Acknowledgments – ix
Introduction – 1
CHAPTER ONE
Performing Objects in the "Theological” Theater – 13
“A Puppet Made by Gods”: Plato and the Hierarchy of Representation – 13
Mammets, Marmosets, and Marionettes: Iconophobia and the Embodied Sign – 22
CHAPTER TWO
Authorship and Culture in Early Modern England – 43
“In Despight of the Players”: Early Modern Puppetry and the "Popular” Voice – 44
“Puppets That Speake from Our Mouths”: Authors and Objects on the Early Modern Stage – 50
"The Puppet’s Part”: Cultural Hierarchy and Social Subordination – 66
“The Mouth of ’hem All”: The Tempest and Bartholomew Faire – 90
CHAPTER THREE
The Violence of Appropriation: From the Interregnum to the Nineteenth Century – 109
"Managers of Human Mechanism”: From “Popular” Puppetry to the “Legitimate” Stage – 111
"The Sacred and Politique Puppet-Play”: Puritans, Power, and the Performing Object – 123
“Borrowed Dress”: Henry Fielding and Charlotte Charke – 144
“Visions of Graver Puppetry”: Punch and Judy and Cultural Appropriation – 161
CHAPTER FOUR
Modern and Postmodern Puppets in Theory and in Practice – 183
“The Omnipotence of a Methodical Will": Performing Objects and the Theatrical Avant-Garde – 184
The Object of Signification: Vitalism, Semiotics, and the Puppet – 210
"No Strings on Me”: From Pinocchio to the Muppets – 222
Index – 243