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Jurkowski,
Henryk
Aspects of puppet
theatre : a collection
of essays
PN 1977 .J87
1988 1988
kind: a contemporary analysis
of puppetry viewed as (an
increasingly important) theatre
art. The book consists of
seven essays written by
Professor Henryk Jurkowski,
the best-known theoretian in
this specialised field which is
nevertheless an intergal part
of the history of theatre. The
essays' titles are: - Literary
Views on Puppet Theatre:
attitudes and theories of
writes, from Horace to San
and Obrastzov - Towards a
Theatre of Objects: tracing the
evolution of the functions of
the puppet onstage. - Between
Literature and Plastic Art - The
Language of the
Contemporary Puppet Theatre
- The Sign Systems of
Puppetry: a semiological point
of view - Puppets and the
Power of State - Eroticism and
Puppetry Henryk Jurkowski is
a historian, critic, semiologist
and lecturer. he has been
President of the Union
English Puppet Centre Trust