The Sicilian Puppets
Author: Antonio Pasqualino
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 33
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Author: Antonio Pasqualino
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 33
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jo Ann Cavallo
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2023-06-13
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1839987650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSicilian puppet theater was the predominant form of cultural expression for working-class southern Italians and Sicilians from the early 1800s until the proliferation of television in the 1950s. This form of dramatic prose theater also flourished in diasporic Italian urban communities, bringing immigrants together for nightly performances of the same deeply cherished chivalric stories. Agrippino Manteo’s scripts, examined for the first time in this study, are testimony to the rich substance of the Paladins of France narratives dramatized on the traditional opera dei pupi stage. Even beyond their historical and aesthetic value, the alternating episodes of love, enchantment, adventure, and warfare invite us to relive the passion, heartbreak, excitement, and magic of knights and damsels from around the globe – from Europe to North Africa to East Asia – who share the stage with a host of wizards, fairies, giants, and monsters. This study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City across seven decades and three generations, provides translations of eight selected plays and 270 extant summaries, and offers comparative analyses uncovering the creative process of adaptation from Italian Renaissance masterpieces of chivalric poetry to nineteenth-century prose compilations to Agrippino Manteo’s opera dei pupi dramatizations.
Author: Antonino Scifo
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9788888683508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John McCormick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-08-04
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521616157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comparative study in English of all aspects of puppetry in nineteenth-century Europe.
Author: Veronica Di Grigoli
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-07-15
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781514802250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen career-girl Veronica flies to Sicily for a friend's wedding, she accidentally falls in love with one of the groom's three-hundred cousins. A year later she has given up her job, house and friends, and is planning her own wedding with her Latin Lover in the shimmering heat of Sicily.
Author: Michael Mignola
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-10-16
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 0312644744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sole priest at the Church of San Domenico tries to teach jaded children catechism using puppets, but he doesn't know that after dark the puppets emerge from their box
Author: Annelie Du Toit
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 189
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe thesis explore Sicilian puppets by building Sicilian puppets similar to the traditional ones, with South African products and materials. The aim of the thesis was to build suits of armour with South African products for the puppets in the same technique as in Sicility. The criteria used was that the puppet must reflect the same traditional effect as the original Sicilian puppet.
Author: Kenneth Gross
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011-09-01
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0226309606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture and voice. In this eloquent book, Kenneth Gross contemplates the fascination of these unsettling objects—objects that are also actors and images of life. The poetry of the puppet is central here, whether in its blunt grotesquery or symbolic simplicity, and always in its talent for metamorphosis. On a meditative journey to seek the idiosyncratic shapes of puppets on stage, Gross looks at the anarchic Punch and Judy show, the sacred shadow theater of Bali, and experimental theaters in Europe and the United States, where puppets enact everything from Baroque opera and Shakespearean tragedy to Beckettian farce. Throughout, he interweaves accounts of the myriad faces of the puppet in literature—Collodi’s cruel, wooden Pinocchio, puppetlike characters in Kafka and Dickens, Rilke’s puppet-angels, the dark puppeteering of Philip Roth’s Micky Sabbath—as well as in the work of artists Joseph Cornell and Paul Klee. The puppet emerges here as a hungry creature, seducer and destroyer, demon and clown. It is a test of our experience of things, of the human and inhuman. A book about reseeing what we know, or what we think we know, Puppet evokes the startling power of puppets as mirrors of the uncanny in life and art.
Author: Michael Buonanno
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-04-04
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1476615004
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study analyzes the folkloric genres that comprise the repertoire of the marionette theater in Sicily. Here, epic, farce, saints' lives, bandits' lives, fairytales, Christian myth, and city legend offer the vehicles by which puppeteers comment upon, critique--perhaps even negotiate--the relationships among the major classes of Sicilian society: the aristocracy, the people, the clergy and the Mafia. The lynchpin of the repertoire is the Carolingian Cycle and, in particular, a contemporary version of The Song of Roland known in Sicily as The Death of the Paladins, a text which illustrates the means by which the Carolingian heroes--Charlemagne, Roland, Renaud, Ganelon, and Angelica--augment saints, bandits, Biblical figures and Sicilian folk heroes to provide the marionette theater its rhetorical function: the articulation and dissemination of the tools of Sicilian identity.
Author: Antonio Pasqualino
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Published: 19??
Total Pages: 16
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