puppet-shows

In Oakland, California, at the renovated Fairyland, they have several puppet-shows a day.

Archive 2007-08-01 Heather McDougal 2007

In Oakland, California, at the renovated Fairyland, they have several puppet-shows a day.

Puppetmaster Heather McDougal 2007

I remember when puppet-shows were made of good scripture stories, as

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

On Fridays the house was full of noise; there were musicians, singers, dancers, the latest Western hits as heard on Radio Ceylon, raucous puppet-shows in which painted clay rajahs rode puppet-stallions, decapitating enemy marionettes with imprecations and wooden swords.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

It occurred in this way: One of the puppet-shows known as "Punch and Judy," arrived at Newmarket, to the great gratification of the neighborhood.

Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell Anonymous

"Bethlehem Stable" puppet-shows, at which the Holy Family, their visitors, and four-footed associates are brought forward as _dramatis personæ_.

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

In these Puppenspiele (puppet-shows) the comic element largely prevails and is kept up by the comic figure Kasperle, a buffoon or 'Hanswurst' of the same character as the Italian Pulcinella, the progenitor of our

The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'

Those who do not look beyond the mere surface of things, are prone to censure managers with great severity, when Theatres, which ought to be held sacred for exhibiting the grandest effusions of the human mind, are prostituted to puppet-shows, rope dancing, pantomimes and exhibitions of elephants, &c.

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810

As might be expected, these puppet-shows introduced a great many variations of the story, most of them a mixture of tragedy and comedy.

The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'

To these are to be added all individuals of either sex who by the law are obliged to obtain from the police licenses to exercise their trade, as pedlars, tinkers, masters of puppet-shows, wild beasts, etc.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various