The Punch & Judy Show: History, Tradition, and Meaning - Hardcover

Leach, Robert

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9780820308005: The Punch & Judy Show: History, Tradition, and Meaning
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0820308005 ISBN 13: 9780820308005
Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1985

Synopsis

The first ever comprehensive history of the English national puppet show. With a wealth of pictorial illustration and quotation taken from his own research, he draws out the many different strands - from abroad, from English popular culture, and from the contributions of Punchmen themselves - which combined to create the central Punch and Judy tradition. He relates in throughout to changing social and political conditions since the industrial revolution, showing, for example, its initial role as a popular response to an oppressive penal system (as in Punch's encounters with Hangman).

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Publisher
Univ of Georgia Pr
Publication date
1985
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0820308005
ISBN 13 
9780820308005
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
192
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