History and development
The renaissance of puppetry in the twentieth century will be of particular interest to future historians of the theatre: for though there have always been puppets, even so far back as the days of ancient Greece and Rome, as time went on they had come to be taken for granted; and by the nineteenth century the showmen, faced with rising rents and the competition of more spectacular entertainments, began to take to the road, and gradually passed from sight.
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