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Table of Contents
Introduction
Christian M. Billing and Pavel Drábek / Czech Puppet Theatre in Global Contexts:
Roots, Theories and Encounters.............................................................................................................. 5
Yorick
Jaroslav Blecha / The Enigmatic Puppets of Important Czech Marionettists, the Flachs............ 35
Marie Jirásková and Pavel Jirásek / Puppet Cabaret: Visual Idioms, Performance
Technologies and the Poetics of Czech Special Puppets in a European Context 1850–1950..... 70
Martin Bernátek / The Renaissance of Czech Puppetry and the Cinema.................................... 135
Pavel Jirásek / Josef Skupa: the Birth of a Modern Artist............................................................... 168
Kateřina Lešková Dolenská / Czech Puppet Theatre
Dramaturgy as a Specific Phenomenon............................................................................................ 231
Katarzyna Lech / Puppets, Dogs, and Vegetarian Angels: Ecocriticism
in Jakub Krofta’s Polish Productions................................................................................................. 277
Georgia Chryssouli / Surreally Human: Jan Švankmajer’s
World of Self-Destructive Puppets..................................................................................................... 303
Dan North / Forgotten Toyhood......................................................................................................... 329
Nina Malíková / Czech Puppet Theatre – Tradition, Legend, and Reality: or,
is Contemporary Czech Puppet Theatre an Endangered Species?.................................................347
Documents
Agnès Novak (with Dušan Petráň) / Backstage and on Tour with Yorick’s Marionettes............387
Joseph Brandesky / Stasis and Flux: Czech Puppet Culture in Columbus,
Ohio (Winter/Spring 2013)...................................................................................................................415
Martina Pecková Černá / List of Puppet Exhibitions.......................................................................429
Reviews
Pavel Drábek / ‘Petr Matásek – the Scenographic Puppet Master’. Miloslav Klíma
et al. Petr Matásek – prostor, hmota, divadlo (2013)..........................................................................463
Christian M. Billing / Pavel Jirásek and Marie Jirásková. 
The Puppet and the Modern (2014).......................................................................................................466
Pavel Drábek / Dassia N. Posner, Claudia Orenstein, and John Bell, eds. 
The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance (2014)...................................471
Christian M. Billing / František Dryje and Bertrand Schmitt. Jan Švankmajer:
Dimensions of Dialogue Between Film and Fine Art (2013) ............................................................477
Sylva Marková / Barbora Diego Rivera Příhodová, ed. Scénografie mluví.
Hovory Jarky Buriana s Josefem Svobodou (2014) ............................................................................481
Eva Daníčková / Magda Romanska, ed. The Routledge Companion
to Dramaturgy (2015) ............................................................................................................................485
Eva Daníčková / Katalin Trencsényi. Dramaturgy in the Making (2015) .....................................490
Pavel Drábek / Ric Knowles. How Theatre Means (2014).................................................................493
Pavel Drábek / ‘A Great German Pickelhäring and a Beheaded Virgin Saint’.
Margita Havlíčková and Christian Neuhuber, eds. Johann Georg Gettner
und das barocke Theater zwischen Nikolsburg und Krumau (2014)................................................499
Archive
Otakar Zich / Puppet Theatre (1923) ..................................................................................................505