Punch and Judy in 19th Century America

Author: Ryan Howard
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476601542
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
The hand-puppet play starring the characters Punch and Judy was introduced from England and became extremely popular in the United States in the 1800s. This book details information on nearly 350 American Punch players. It explores the significance of the 19th-century American show as a reflection of the attitudes and conditions of its time and place. The century was a time of changing feelings about what it means to be human. There was an intensified awareness of the racial, cultural, social and economical diversity of the human species, and a corresponding concern for the experience of human oneness. The American Punch and Judy show was one of the manifestations of these conditions.

Punch and Judy Politics

Author: Ayesha Hazarika
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
ISBN: 1785903586
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
Prime Minister's Questions is the bear pit of British politics. Watched and admired around the world, it is often hated at home for bringing out the worst in our politicians. Yet despite successive leaders trying to get away from Punch and Judy politics, it's here to stay. Ayesha Hazarika and Tom Hamilton spent five years preparing Ed Miliband for the weekly joust, living through the highs and lows, tension and black humour of the political front line. In this insightful and often hilarious book, including an updated afterword discussing the key events of 2018, they lift the lid on PMQs and what it's really like to ready the leader for combat. Drawing on personal recollections from key players including Tony Blair, David Cameron, Harriet Harman, William Hague and Vince Cable alongside their unique knowledge, Hazarika and Hamilton take you behind the scenes of some of the biggest PMQs moments.

Punch and Judy

Author: John Payne Collier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description

The Punch & Judy Book

Author: Ron Maris
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 9780575034143
Category : Punch and Judy
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
Meneer Punch krijgt het met iedereen aan de stok en hij slaat hen allen neer. Poppenkastverhaal in prentenboekvorm over een Jan Klaassenachtige figuur, bekend bij het straattheater vanaf de 17e eeuw. Vanaf ca. 4 jaar.

Punch and Judy

Author: Geoff Felix
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780952137122
Category : Punch and Judy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Judy and Punch

Author: Ethel Turner
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140346046
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 235

Book Description
When Captain Woolcot finds it impossible to manage his high - spirited daughter Judy, she is sent away to boarding school. On the way she meets up with Punch, and her longing for home begins to grow. 256 pages Paperback

The Tragical Comedy Or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch

Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0747588449
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
The classic graphic novel - a dark fable of childhood and growing up.

The Mirror Dance

Author: Catriona McPherson
Publisher: Mobius
ISBN: 9781529337921
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Something sinister is afoot in the streets of Dundee, when a puppeteer is found murdered behind his striped Punch and Judy stand, as children sit cross-legged drinking ginger beer. At once, Dandy Gilver's seemingly-innocuous investigation into plagiarism takes a darker turn. The gruesome death seems to be inextricably bound to the gloomy offices of Doig's Publishers, its secrets hidden in the real stories behind their girls' magazines The Rosie Cheek and The Freckle. On meeting a mysterious professor from St Andrews, Dandy and her faithful colleague Alex Osbourne are flung into the worlds of academia, the theatre and publishing. Nothing is quite as it seems, and behind the cheerful facades of puppets and comic books, is a troubled history has begun to repeat itself.

Too Much Punch for Judy

Author: Mark Wheeller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781902843056
Category : Children's plays, English
Languages : en
Pages : 51

Book Description
This documentary play script focuses on the feelings instigated by a death as a result of drink driving. A tragic drink/drive accident results in the death of Jo, the front seat passenger whilst the driver, her sister Judy, escapes unhurt (or has she?).

Punch with Judy

Author: Avi
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780785754985
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An outcast eight-year-old boy, orphaned by the Civil War, is taken in by the owner of a traveling medicine show and, despite the doubts of others, years later he confirms the man's faith in him.