This text offers an overview of the uses of these figures in European drama from 1890 to 1935. It considers developments in France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. In his introduction, Segel reviews the pre-modernist literary and dramatic treatment of the puppet and marionette from Cervantes' "Don Quixote" to the turn-of-the-century European cabaret. His epilogue considers the appearance of puppets and marionettes in postmodern European and American drama by examining works by such dramatists as Jean-Claude Van Itallie, Heiner Muller and Tadeusz Kantor.
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