Henryk Jurkowski, Penny Francis

Aspects of Puppet Theatre (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Henryk Jurkowski's seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art. This new edition of a classic brings the original text back to life, including four additional essays and a new introduction, edited and translated by leading puppetry scholar Penny Francis.
Henryk Jurkowski's seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art. This new edition of a classic brings the original text back to life, including four additional essays and a new introduction, edited and translated by leading puppetry scholar Penny Francis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137338457
• Artikelnr.: 62718609

Autorenporträt

HENRYK JURKOWSKI is Professor of Theatre at Warsaw University, Poland.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1. Literary Views on Puppet Theatre 2. Towards a Theatre of
Objects 3. Between Literature and Plastic Art 4. The Language of the Puppet
Theatre 5. The Sign Systems of Puppetry 6. Puppets and the Power of the
State 7. Eroticism and Puppetry 8. The Human Among Things and Objects 9.
Craig and Puppets 10. Among Priests, Deities and Shamans 11. The Acting
Puppet as a Figure of Speech Index.