<p>Kasperl leaves for America on a boat, but is swallowed by a whale that spits him out on an island inhabited by cannibals. They salt him and smear him in whale fat. Attracted by the smell of fat, an eagle kidnaps Kasperl on the verge of being eaten and takes him back to Europe. Kasperl manages to escape and meets a horseman who takes him back to his family. The play ends as a prologue with an invitation to take a seat in front of the puppet theatre for the start of the main performance.</p>

Shadow theatre

Young audiences

Pocci Franz von

Germany

Munich

Printed

Boat

Navigation

Sea scene

America

Shipwreck

Fish

Leviathan

Unknown land

Island

Sausage

Beer

Thirst

Hunger

Cannibalism

Savage

Kidnapping

Horse

Family

Marvelous

Comical

German

Kasperl

Baleine

Cannibale

Eagle

Cavalier

Madame Kasperl

Child

Monologue

Play in verse

Chorus

Sung scenes

Macaronism

Unexpected turn of events

Puppet theatre within the theatre

Kasperl bei den Menschenfressern

Kasperl among the anthropophagi

<p>Don Juan overhears a conversation between Amarillis and Don Philippo, who agree to a romantic rendezvous. He sets out to kidnap Amarillis, when her father, Don Pietro, appears. Don Juan stabs him, and then robs his relative Don Alvaro Pantolfius, before fleeing Seville with his servant Schängche. The latter, tormented by a devil, is carried into the air on a giant sausage. After a shipwreck in which Schängche is swallowed and then spat out by a whale, the two fugitives wander through the woods. They meet a hermit, who, under threat, lends Don Juan a suit to disguise himself. Lost in the forest, Amarillis meets Schängche's fiancée, the innkeeper Greta de la Rosa. Don Juan finds the two women and tries to seduce them, but Don Philippo finds him in the meantime. Don Juan murders him. Schängche still has to fight a monster they meet in the forest. They arrive by chance at Greta's inn, where Don Juan seduces the bride of a wedding that has just taken place. At the cemetery, he invites the statue of Don Pietro to supper, who accepts his invitation. But Don Juan refuses to repent and is damned. Schängche, on the other hand, marries Greta.</p>

Rod puppet

Not specified

Will Hermanns (Peter Josef Wilhelm Hermanns)

Aachen

Seduction

Abduction

Murder

Money

Debauchery

Perlicke

Monster

Damnation

Forest

Tavern

Dramatic

Don Juan der Fraulütstrüester

Ein schauerlich-schönes Spiel in 5 Akten mit Sing-, Flieg- und Keilerei

Don Pietro

Donna Marillis

Don Filippo

Don Juan

Pantolfius

Hermit

Devil

Court usher

Versified passages

Song

Dialect

Lazzi

Tragic irony

Word for another

Off-stage voices

Stichomythia

Blow-with-a-stick

Disguise

Devil's apparition

Murder on stage

Pact with the devil

Der steinerne Gast

The stone guest