Author: Ryan Howard
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476601542
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The hand-puppet play starring the characters Punch and Judy was introduced from England and became extremely popular in the United States in the 1800s. This book details information on nearly 350 American Punch players. It explores the significance of the 19th-century American show as a reflection of the attitudes and conditions of its time and place. The century was a time of changing feelings about what it means to be human. There was an intensified awareness of the racial, cultural, social and economical diversity of the human species, and a corresponding concern for the experience of human oneness. The American Punch and Judy show was one of the manifestations of these conditions.
Punch and Judy in 19th Century America
Author: Ryan Howard
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476601542
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The hand-puppet play starring the characters Punch and Judy was introduced from England and became extremely popular in the United States in the 1800s. This book details information on nearly 350 American Punch players. It explores the significance of the 19th-century American show as a reflection of the attitudes and conditions of its time and place. The century was a time of changing feelings about what it means to be human. There was an intensified awareness of the racial, cultural, social and economical diversity of the human species, and a corresponding concern for the experience of human oneness. The American Punch and Judy show was one of the manifestations of these conditions.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476601542
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The hand-puppet play starring the characters Punch and Judy was introduced from England and became extremely popular in the United States in the 1800s. This book details information on nearly 350 American Punch players. It explores the significance of the 19th-century American show as a reflection of the attitudes and conditions of its time and place. The century was a time of changing feelings about what it means to be human. There was an intensified awareness of the racial, cultural, social and economical diversity of the human species, and a corresponding concern for the experience of human oneness. The American Punch and Judy show was one of the manifestations of these conditions.
The Collected Poems of John Masefield
Author: John Masefield
Publisher: London, Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Publisher: London, Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
The Boys' and girls' companion for leisure hours, ed. by J. and M. Bennett
The Wizard
Ralph, the bailiff, and other tales. by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'.
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Light
The Year-book of Photography and Photographic News Almanac for ...
Ralph the Bailiff and Other Stories
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Curiosities of Natural History
Author: Francis Trevelyan Buckland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description