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The Victorian Marionette Theatre
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John McCormick, The Victorian Marionette Theatre. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. 272 pp. $24.95.
The variety of performance techniques invented, developed, discarded, or advanced in the nineteenth century is truly fascinating, and clearly an antecedent to the performance innovations that characterized the following century's 'modernity'. The modernity of nineteenth-century performance, like that of the twentieth, seems to lie in its combined interest in new technologies, rediscovered traditional forms, increased consciousness of non-western performance cultures (brought about by colonialism and global awareness), and an unabashed fascination with popular culture. On …
