The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947)

Joint winner of The Literary Encyclopedia book prize 2024, category ‘Literatures written in languages other than English' Winner of the Nancy Staub Publications Award 2024 Winner of the AATI Book Award 2024 for Literary, Critical Theory, and Cultural Studies - Sicilian puppet theater is a unique nineteenth- and twentieth-century popular theatrical tradition based on the masterpieces of medieval and Renaissance chivalric literature. It flourished not only in southern Italy and Sicily, but also in