TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buonanno,Michael
TI  - Sicilian epic and the marionette theater /Michael Buonanno
SN  - 9781476615004
AV  - PN1978 .S535 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Jefferson, North Carolina
PB  - McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers
KW  - Marionettes
KW  - Italy
KW  - Sicily
KW  - History
KW  - Puppet theater
KW  - Theater and society
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Preface: a storied island --; Introduction: The genius of Palermo --; The cultural context of Sicilian epic --; The marionette theater --; Knights and masques --; Saints and bandits --; On christian soil --; The Carolingian cycle --; The song of Roland in Sicily --; Social order and the fairy tale --; City legend and secret societies --; Conclusion: The last adventure --; Appendix: The death of the Paladins; 2; b
N2  - "This is an analysis of the folkloric genres that comprise the repertoire of the marionette theater in Sicily. Here, epic, farce, saints' lives, bandits' lives, fairytales, Christian myth, and city legend offer the vehicles by which puppeteers comment upon, inform about, the relationships among the classes of Sicilian society: the aristocracy, the people, the clerics and the Mafia"--
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