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Barnard,
Richard
Life and Travels of
Richard Barnard:
Marionette Propietor
PN1978.E5
B376 1981 1981
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the hazardous profession of
puppeteer today are wont to
look back with envy to a
Golden Age before the
television and before the
cinema, when large audiences
of unsophisticated adults
gathered with wonder to
witness performances in the
theatre of marionettes... These
memoirs of Richard Barnard
tell us what it was really like. It
was far from roses all the way.
They present a revealing
picture of the risks and
hardships of a travelling
marionette performer's life in
the last decades of the
nineteenth century, of the poor
business as well as the good,
and of the linking family
relationships that bound
together the puppet players of
that age. We are left with a
English
Society for Theatre
Research