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Printed

12 pages

Die Enthauptung der Heiligen Dorothea

| Beginning of the 18th century | Germany | German
  • Monologue
  • Apparition of the Devil
  • Apparition of an angel
  • Disguise
  • Beheading
  • Metamorphosis
  • Murder on stage
  • Suicide on stage
  • Fire
  • Thunderbolt
  • Glory
  • Miracle
  • Christianity
  • Paganism
  • Martyrdom
  • Ancient history
  • Saints
  • Conversion
Literary tones
Religious, Dramatic
Animation Techniques
String marionette
Audience
Not specified

Printed, Manuscript

26 pages

Don Juan's zweites Leben

Ludwig Koch
| Before 1858 | Munich, Germany | German
  • Apparition
  • Final intervention of the devil
  • Inn scene
  • Allegory
  • Magic act
  • Bawdy equivocation
  • Comic equivocation
  • Glory
  • Love story
  • Macaronism
  • Aria
  • Ghost
  • Dialect as a social marker
  • Versified passages
  • Deus ex machina
  • Confinement
  • Pun
  • Parody of formal language
  • Pact with the devil
  • Music
  • Opera
  • Storm
  • Hell
  • Eternal punishment
  • Seduction
  • Turkey
  • Spain
  • Silliness
  • Old age
  • Despotism
  • Escape
  • Cage
  • Bird
  • Love
  • Innocence
Literary tones
Fantasy, Parodistic
Animation Techniques
String marionette
Audience
All audiences

Printed

67 pages

Matoum en Matoumoisie

Pierre Albert-Birot
| 1919 | Paris, France | French
  • Address to the public
  • Double characters
  • Metamorphosis
  • Glory
  • Entering with vehicle
  • Dance
  • Aria
  • Donkey
  • Wedding
  • Prophecy
  • Announcement of a messiah
  • Impostor
  • Levitation
  • Virgin mother of a child
  • Play on words
  • Cephalophoria
  • Racing car
  • Ugliness
  • Lie
  • Childbirth
  • Miracle
  • Decollation
  • Forgiveness
  • Reconciliation
  • Resurrection
  • Laughter
Literary tones
Comical, Lyrical, Philosophical tale
Animation Techniques
Glove-puppet
, String marionette
, Shadow theatre
Audience
Not specified