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Page 82
... scenery , with machinery for changing the scenes and working the flying effects . When Signor Bologna was performing plays by Molière in Paris , at the Foire de Saint - Laurent , in 1678 he boasted that his " changes of scenery and ...
... scenery , with machinery for changing the scenes and working the flying effects . When Signor Bologna was performing plays by Molière in Paris , at the Foire de Saint - Laurent , in 1678 he boasted that his " changes of scenery and ...
Page 102
... scenery , for fifty guineas ; 3 Young Powell offered to take him up for a hundred guineas . I do not know whether , or how , the dispute was decided , but the upshot of it was that the two rivals joined forces , and the next year they ...
... scenery , for fifty guineas ; 3 Young Powell offered to take him up for a hundred guineas . I do not know whether , or how , the dispute was decided , but the upshot of it was that the two rivals joined forces , and the next year they ...
Page 121
... scenery and nonsense : as at the Little Piazza seventy years before , there was caricature and wit . Many of the plays that seem to have been specially written for the Patagonian Theatre were satires , to judge from their titles , full ...
... scenery and nonsense : as at the Little Piazza seventy years before , there was caricature and wit . Many of the plays that seem to have been specially written for the Patagonian Theatre were satires , to judge from their titles , full ...
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MEDITERRANEAN MIMES page | 11 |
FROM SOCRATES | 22 |
Types of Puppets p 22 Greek and Roman Puppets | 35 |
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1863 Sunderland actors advertisements appeared artists audience ballad Bartholomew Fair booth Brigaldi burlesque Chapter characters Charke Charlotte Charke clown Comedy comic contemporary Court Covent Garden dancing described Devil Dibdin drama Dublin E. K. Chambers Eidophusikon eighteenth century Elizabethan England English puppet entertainment Fantoccini Farce Fawkes figures French George Speaight glove puppets Harlequin Haymarket human theatre illustrations Italian Italian puppet Italy Jonson ladies Leatherhead London Marionette Theatre mask Mayhew Middleton mimes motion Museum nineteenth century Norwich Ombres Chinoises opera pantomime Panton Street Paris Patagonian Theatre Payne Collier performance perhaps playbills Polichinelle popular Powell Powell's presented Pulcinella Punch and Judy Punchinello puppet play puppet players puppet show puppet showmen puppet stage puppet theatre Puppetry recorded references repertory reproduced satire Savile Row scene scenery season seems seen showmen sometimes Southwark Fair story street show Sunderland swazzle theatrical to-day Toured tradition tricks troupe wife Wilding Yeates