The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance

Introduction / Dassia N. Posner, Claudia Orenstein, and John Bell --
Part I: Theory and practice / edited and introduced by John Bell --
Section I: Theoretical approaches to the puppet. The death of \"the puppet\"? / Margaret Williams --
The co-presence and ontological ambiguity of the puppet / Paul Piris --
Playing with the eternal uncanny: the persistent life of lifeless objects / John Bell --
Section II: Perspectives from practitioners. Visual dramaturgy: some thoughts for puppet theatre-makers / Eric Bass --
Puppetry, authorship, and the Ur-narrative / Basil Jones --
Petrushka\'s voice / Alexander Gref and Elena Slonimskaya --
\"Clouds are made of white!\": the intersection of live art and puppetry as an approach to postdramatic children\'s theatre / Rike Reiniger --
Movement is consciousness / Kate Brehm --
The eye of light: the tension of image and object in shadow theatre and beyond / Stephen Kaplin --
The third thing / Jim Lasko --
Post-decivilization efforts in the nonsense suburb of art / Peter Schumann. Part II: New dialogues with history and tradition / edited and introduced by Claudia Orenstein --
Section III: Revisiting history. Making a troublemaker: Charlotte Charke\'s proto-feminist Punch / Amber West --
Life-death and disobedient obedience: Russian modernist redefinitions of the puppet / Dassia N. Posner --
The Saracen of Opera dei Pupi: a study of race, representation, and identity / Lisa Morse --
Puppet think: the implication of Japanese ritual puppetry for thinking through puppetry performances / Jane Marie Law --
Relating to the cross: a puppet perspective on the Holy Week ceremonies of the Regularis Concordia / Debra Hilborn --
Section IV: Negotiating tradition. Traditional and post-traditional wayang kulit in Java today / Matthew Isaac Cohen --
Korean puppetry and heritage: Hyundai Puppet Theatre and Creative Group NONI translating tradition / Kathy Foley --
Forging new paths for Kerala\'s tolpavakoothu leather shadow puppetry tradition / Claudia Orenstein --
Integration of puppetry tradition into contemporary theatre: the reinvigoration of the vertep puppet nativity play after communism in Eastern Europe / Ida Hledíková Part III: Contemporary investigations and hybridizations / edited and introduced by Dassia N. Posner --
Section V: Material performances in contemporary theatre. From props to prosopopeia: making After Cardenio / Jane Taylor --
\"A total spectacle but a divided one\": redefining character in Handspring Puppet Company\'s Or you could kiss me / Dawn Tracey Brandes --
Reading a puppet show: understanding the three-dimensional narrative / Robert Smythe --
Notes on new model theatres / Mark J. Sussman --
Section VI: New directions and hybrid forms. From puppet to robot: technology and the human in Japanese theatre / Cody Poulton --
Unholy alliances and harmonious hybrids: new fusions in puppetry and animation / Colette Searls --
Programming play: puppets, robots, and engineering / Elizabeth Ann Jochum and Todd Murphey --
Return to the mound: animating infinite potentia in clay, food, and compost / Eleanor Margolies.