Casper is accused by a farmer of stealing his hay and the cart and cow that went with it. He tries to bargain over the compensation and settles the matter with a stick. In court, he insults the judge and beats the policeman. The peasant asks for him to be hanged, but Casper finds out and hangs him instead. Then he beats the policeman again. The judge wants him tortured and executed, but Casper beats him to death.

Glove-puppet

Young audiences

Germany

Sonneberg

Printed

Justice

Theft

Retribution

Punishment

Gallows

Torture

Police

Jail

Court

Prosecution

Violence

Assassination

Embezzlement

Silliness

Wickedness

Insubordination

Farcical

Ironic

German

Kasperl

Judge

Policeman

Peasant

Address to the public

Versified passages

Flying machine

Blow-with-a-stick

Parodic trial

Stichomythia

Foul language register

Comic Equivocation

Hanging scene

Murder on stage

Epilogue

Casper soll ins Gefängnis kommen

Casper must go to jail

Casper goes to the magic factory to learn magic tricks. The magician shows him some, but Casper is so crude that the magician soon doesn't know what to say, whereupon Casper calls him a donkey. They fight, one with his stick and the other with his broom. Casper defeats the magician. A policeman comes to arrest him, but Casper knocks him out and hangs him on the gallows. His wife blames him, they argue and fight.

Magic

Triviality

Vulgarity

Rebellion

Household

Couple

Stick

Broom

Magician

Word for another

Brawl

Domestic scene

Casper will Zauberer werden

Casper wants to become a magician

In a prison, two exceptional prisoners, Jesus and Pinocchio, talk to each other from the communicating wall of their prison cells, without seeing each other. They talk about the gymnastics they do to distract themselves, about homecountry and homesickness, about their fiancées, everything they miss outside of these four walls. Pinocchio does not believe in the miracles Jesus tells him, but when questioned, he claims to believe in them and his nose gets longer. In their dialogue, they discover they have a lot in common: their condition as persecuted by justice or the fact that they can both walk on water. In the end, the guards come for Jesus; while he is happy and thinks that the men have realised that they have made a mistake in imprisoning him, Pinocchio has a bad feeling and, in vain, shouts at him from his cell not to follow them.

Adults

Brunello Gigio

Italy

Mogliano Veneto

Imprisonment

Miracle

Innocence

Nose lengthening

Tragic

Comical

Italian

Pinocchio

Heureux ceux qui sont persécutés pour la justice, car le royaume des cieux est à eux.

Jesus

Dialogue between characters who do not see each other

Conversation

Confinement

Beati i perseguitati a causa della giustizia perché di essi è il regno dei cieli

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven