Title: Czech puppet theatre in global contexts: roots, theories and encounters
Source document: Theatralia. 2015, vol. 18, iss. 2, pp. 5-31
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5-31
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ISSN1803-845X (print)2336-4548 (online)
Persistent identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2015-2-1
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Abstract(s)
This article is both an introduction to this volume as well as to the rich and enchanting world of Czech puppet theatre, with its unique combination of transnational and geographically and cultural distinctive features. Pavel Drábek's essay, incorporated in this introduction, revisits the early modern roots of Czech puppet theatre, suggesting the possible missing links between the early practices, as documented in the travelling performers' tradition, and the tradition of the marionettists of the last two centuries. The introduction traces the developments of the Czech puppet theatre into the twentieth century and its impact on cinema as well as its key role in the shaping of modern theatre theory under the aegis of the Prague School.
Note
This article is published as part of the research grant project Czech Structuralist Thought on Theatre: context and potency, held by the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, 2011–2015; funded by the Czech Grant Agency, grant no. GA409/11/1082.
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[3] BLECHA, Jaroslav and Pavel JIRÁSEK. 2008. Česká loutka [The Czech Puppet]. Praha: Kant, 2008.
[4] BOLTE, Johannes. 1893. Die Singspiele der englischen Komodianten und ihrer Nachfolger in Deutschland, Holland und Skandinavien [Sung Plays of the English Comedians and their Followers in Germany, the Netherlands and Scandinavia, 1893]. Reprint. Nendeln: Kraus Reprint, 1977.
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[7] BUTTERWORTH, Philip. 2005. Magic on the Early Modern Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
[8] CLUBB, Louise George. 1989. Italian Drama in Shakespeare's Time. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
[9] DUBSKÁ, Alice. 2004. Dvě století českého loutkářství: vývojové proměny českého loutkového divadla od poloviny 18. století do roku 1945 [Two Centuries of Czech Puppetry. The Developments of Czech Puppet Theatre from the Middle of the Eighteenth Century to 1945]. Praha: NAMU, 2004.
[10] DUBSKÁ, Alice. 2012. The Travels of the Puppeteers Brat and Pratte Through Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Praha: NAMU, 2012.
[11] DRÁBEK, Pavel. 2014. English Comedy and Central European Marionette Theatre. In Robert Henke and Eric Nicholson (eds.). Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014: 177–96.
[12] GRANT, Teresa. 2007. Entertaining Animals. In Brigitte Resl and Linda Kalof, gen. ed. A Cultural History of Animals. Volume 3. The Renaissance (1400–1600), ed. Bruce Boehrer. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2007: 95–118.
[13] GRIFFITH, Eva. 2013. A Jacobean Company and its Playhouse: The Queen's Servants at the Red Bull Theatre (ca. 1605–1619). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
[14] HAVLÍČKOVÁ, Margita and Christian NEUHUBER (eds.). Johann Georg Gettner und dar barocke Theater zwischen Nikolsburg und Krumau [J. G. Gettner and the Baroque Theatre between Mikulov and Česky Krumlov]. Brno: Masaryk University, 2014.
[15] HENKE, Robert. 2008. Border-Crossing in the Commedia dell'Arte. In Robert HENKE and Eric Nicholson (eds.). Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2008: 19–34.
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[17] HONIGMANN, E. A. J. 1986. Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Essays in Comparison. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986.
[18] HYMAN, Wendy Beth (ed.). 2011. The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011.
[19] JAKUBCOVÁ, Alena and Matthias J. PERNERSTORFER (eds.). 2014. Theater in Bohmen, Mahren und Schlesien. Von den Anfangen bis zum Ausgang des 18. Jahrhunderts. Ein Lexicon [Theatre in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. From the Beginnings to the Late 18th Century. [Lexicon]. Prague/Vienna: Institut uměni – Divadelní Ústav/Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014.
[20] JIRÁSKOVÁ, Marie and Pavel JIRÁSEK. 2011. Loutka a moderna [The Puppet and the Modern]. Praha: JAMU, Arbor Vitae, 2011.
[21] JIRÁSKOVÁ, Marie and Pavel JIRÁSEK. 2014. The Puppet and the Modern. Transl. by Magdalena and Lawrence Wells. Praha: JAMU, Arbor Vitae, 2014.
[22] JURKOWSKI, Henryk. 1996. A History of European Puppetry: From Its Origin to the End of the Nineteenth Century. Vol. 1. Edited by Penny Francis. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996.
[23] KAFKA, Luboš. 2009. Betlemáři: kapitoly z historie a současnosti tvorby betlémů [Crib Makers: chapters from the history and the present of the making of Christmas Cribs]. Praha: Etnologický Ústav AV ČR, 2009.
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[26] KATRITZKY, M. A. 2008. English Troupes in Early Modern Germany: The Women. In Robert HENKE and Eric Nicholson (eds.). Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2008: 35–46.
[27] KATRITZKY, M. A. 2012. Healing, Performance and Ceremony in the Writings of Three Early Modern Physicians: Hippolytus Guarinonius and the Brothers Felix and Thomas Platter. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.
[28] KNÍŽÁK, Milan. 2006. Encyklopedie výtvarníků loutkového divadla v českých zemích a na Slovensku od vystopovatelné minulosti do roku 1950 [An Encyclopaedia of the Visual Artists of the Puppet Theatre in the Czech Lands and in Slovakia from the Traceable Past to 1950]. Hradec Králové: Nucleus, 2006.
[29] KORDA, Natasha. 2011. Labors Lost: Women's Work and the Early Modern English Stage. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
[30] MALÍK, Jan. 1964–1970. Z letopisů dřevěné Thálie [From the Chronicles of the Wooden Thalia]. Československy loutkař [The Czechoslovak Puppeteer] XIV–XX (1964–1970).
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[32] NIESSEN, Karl. 1928. Das Rheinische Puppenspiel. Ein theatergeschichtlicher Beitrag zur Volkskunde [The Rheinland Puppet Theatre. A Theatre Studies Contribution to Ethnography]. Bonn: Fritz Klopp Verlag, 1928.
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[34] POLEHLA, Petr. 2011. Ctnosti a neřesti ve vybraných jezuitských (alegorických) hrách [Virtues and Vices in Selected Jesuit (Allegorical) Plays]. In Petr Polehla and Jan Hojda (eds.). Náboženské divadlo v raném novověku [Early Modern Religious Theatre]. Ústí nad Orlicí: Oftis, 2011: 32–42.
[35] RUDIN, Barbel. 1976. Das fahrende Volk. Puppenspiel als Metier: Nachrichten und Kommentare aus dem 17. und 18. Jahrhundert [The Travelling People. Puppet Theatre as Profession: News and Commentaries from the 17th and 18th Centuries]. Kolner Geschichtsjournal 1 (1976): 2–11.
[36] RUDIN, Barbel. 1980. Fraulein Dorothea und der Blaue Montag [Virgin Dorothea and the Artisans' Holiday]. In A. J. Bisanz and Raymond Trousson (eds.). Elemente der Literatur: Beitrage zur Stoff-, Motiv- und Themenforschung [Elements of Literature: Papers on Research into Topics, Motives and Themes]. Vol. 1. Stuttgart: Alfred Kroner, 1980: 95–113.
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[39] SPOHR, Arne. 2009. 'How chances it they travel?' Englische Musiker in Danemark und Norddeutschland 1579–1630. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009.
[40] TALEB, Nassim Nicholas. 2007. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable [2007]. London: Penguin Books, 2008.
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