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Punch and Judy, the Glossary

Punch and Judy is a traditional puppet show featuring Mr.^[1]

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1662 establishments in England
English humour
Fictional characters introduced in 1662
Pulcinella
Puppetry in the United Kingdom

AACTA Awards

The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, known as the AACTA Awards, are presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA).

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Anglicisation

Anglicisation is a form of cultural assimilation whereby something non-English becomes assimilated into, influenced by or dominated by the culture of England.

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Arbisteatern

Arbisteatern (The Arbis theatre) in the city of Norrköping, Sweden, is the country's oldest amateur theatre stage, famous for productions where professional actors and amateurs work together.

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Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Kathleen Hepburn (née Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Bartholomew Fair

The Bartholomew Fair was one of London's pre-eminent summer charter fairs.

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Bath, Somerset

Bath (RP) is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, in England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths.

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Ben Aaronovitch

Ben Dylan Aaronovitch (born 22 February 1964) is an English author and screenwriter.

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Bil Baird

William Britton "Bil" Baird (August 15, 1904 – March 18, 1987) was an American puppeteer of the mid- and late 20th century.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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A capotain, capatain, copotain, or steeple hat is a tall-crowned, narrow-brimmed, slightly conical "sugarloaf" hat, usually black, worn by men and women from the 1590s into the mid-seventeenth century in England and northwestern Europe.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Cary Grant

Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904November 29, 1986) was an English-American actor.

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Cast recording

A cast recording is a recording of a stage musical that is intended to document the songs as they were performed in the show and experienced by the audience.

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Charade (1963 film)

Charade is a 1963 American romantic comedy mystery film produced and directed by Stanley Donen, written by Peter Stone and Marc Behm, and starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.

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Charlotte Charke

Charlotte Charke (née Cibber, also Charlotte Secheverell, aka Charles Brown) was an English actress, playwright, novelist, and autobiographer.

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Cinderella

"Cinderella", or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants that are told throughout the world.

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Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber (6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate.

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Commedia dell'arte was an early form of professional theatre, originating from Italian theatre, that was popular throughout Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries.

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Commodore 64

The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas).

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Consequences (game)

Consequences is an old parlour game in a similar vein to the Surrealist game exquisite corpse and Mad Libs.

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Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane.

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Damon Herriman

Damon Herriman (born 31 March 1970) is an Australian actor.

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DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc. (doing business as DC) is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Devil

A devil is the personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions.

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Discworld

Discworld is a comic fantasy"Humorous Fantasy" in David Pringle, ed., The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy (pp.31-33).

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Disney Channel (Scandinavian TV channel)

Disney Channel is a Scandinavian children's television channel owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company Limited.

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Domestic violence

Domestic violence is violence or other abuse that occurs in a domestic setting, such as in a marriage or cohabitation.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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Either/Or (album)

Either/Or is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith.

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Elliott Smith

Steven Paul Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003), known as Elliott Smith, was an American musician and singer-songwriter.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Fit-up

A fit-up is a style of theatre or circus where companies of travelling performers tour towns and villages in the provinces of Ireland, Britain and elsewhere, particularly throughout the 19th century. Punch and Judy and fit-up are culture of England, drama and traditions.

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Folklore

Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.

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George Cruikshank

George Cruikshank or Cruickshank (27 September 1792 – 1 February 1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life.

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George Speaight

George Victor Speaight FRSA (6 September 1914 – 22 December 2005) was a theatre historian, author and performer and the leading authority on 19th-century toy theatre.

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George Washington

George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.

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Guignol

Guignol is the main character in a French puppet show which has come to bear his name. Punch and Judy and Guignol are puppets.

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Hand puppet

A hand puppet is a type of puppet that is controlled by the hands that occupies the interior of the puppet.

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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English writer and magistrate known for the use of humour and satire in his works.

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Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini (born Enrico Nicola Mancini; April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flutist.

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Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew (25 November 1812 – 25 July 1887) was an English journalist, playwright, and advocate of reform.

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Interregnum

An interregnum (plural interregna or interregnums) is a period of discontinuity or "gap" in a government, organization, or social order.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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Jack Ketch

John Ketch (died November 1686), generally known as Jack Ketch, was an infamous English executioner employed by King Charles II.

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Jack Stauber

Jack Stauber (born April 6, 1996) is an American musician, animator, and internet personality based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Jester

A jester, court jester, fool or joker was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during royal court.

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Johan Christher Schütz

Johan Christher Schütz is a Swedish songwriter and music producer.

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John Payne Collier

John Payne Collier (11 January 178917 September 1883) was an English writer, Shakespearean critic, and forger.

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Joker (character)

The Joker is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Joy Sarney

Joy Sarney (born Florence Joy Crabtree; 1944) is an English singer known for the novelty song "Naughty Naughty Naughty", released as a single in 1977.

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Judy and Punch

Judy and Punch is a 2019 Australian period black comedy film written and directed by Mirrah Foulkes in her feature directorial debut, based on a story by Foulkes, Eddy Moretti, Lucy Punch, and Tom Punch.

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Kasperle

Kasperle, Kasper, or Kasperl (Bavarian German: Káschberl, Swabian German: Kaschberle, Swiss German: Chaschperli) is a famous and traditional puppet character from Austria, German-speaking Switzerland, and Germany. Punch and Judy and Kasperle are Pulcinella and puppets.

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Kazoo

The kazoo is a musical instrument that adds a "buzzing" timbral quality to a player's voice when the player puts their lips in between the smaller hole and vocalizes into it.

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Kyphosis

Kyphosis is an abnormally excessive convex curvature of the spine as it occurs in the thoracic and sacral regions.

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Letters of Charles Dickens

The letters of Charles Dickens, of which more than 14,000 are known, range in date from about 1821, when Dickens was 9 years old, to 8 June 1870, the day before he died.

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Licensing Act 1737

The Licensing Act 1737 (10 Geo. 2. c. 28) is a former Act of Parliament in the Kingdom of Great Britain, and a pivotal moment in British theatrical history.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London Labour and the London Poor

London Labour and the London Poor is a work of Victorian journalism by Henry Mayhew.

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London theatre closure 1642

On 2 September 1642, just after the First English Civil War had begun, the Long Parliament ordered the closure of all London theatres.

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Lord of Misrule

In England, the Lord of Misrule – known in Scotland as the Abbot of Unreason and in France as the Prince des Sots – was an officer appointed by lot during Christmastide to preside over the Feast of Fools.

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Marillion

Marillion are a British neo prog band, formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 1979.

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Marionette

A marionette (marionnette) is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations.

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Martin Powell (puppetry)

Martin Powell, (fl. 1709–1720; d. 1729) was an Irish master puppeteer and puppet show impresario, who put on a repertoire of satirical and parodical marionette shows that invariably featured the Punch character.

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Mayfair

Mayfair is an area in London, England and is located in the City of Westminster.

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Mia Wasikowska

Mia Wasikowska (born 25 October 1989) is an Australian actress.

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Mirrah Foulkes

Mirrah Foulkes is an Australian director, screenwriter, and film and television actress.

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Monstrous Regiment (novel)

Monstrous Regiment is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 31st novel in his Discworld series.

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Motley

Motley is the traditional costume of the court jester, the motley fool, or the arlecchino character in commedia dell'arte.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. Punch and Judy and Musical theatre are drama.

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Naples

Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Norrköping

Norrköping is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, about 160 km southwest of the national capital Stockholm, 40 km east of county seat Linköping and 60 km west of the Södermanland capital of Nyköping.

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Online and offline

In computer technology and telecommunications, online indicates a state of connectivity, and offline indicates a disconnected state.

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Pan flute

A pan flute (also known as panpipes or syrinx) is a musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth).

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Philip John Stead

Philip John Stead OBE, FRSL (5 February 1915 – 22 June 2005), was an English criminologist, author, literary critic, translator and poet.

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Political cartoon

A political cartoon, also known as an editorial cartoon, is a cartoon graphic with caricatures of public figures, expressing the artist's opinion.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Prop

A prop, formally known as a (theatrical) property, is an object actors use on stage or screen during a performance or screen production.

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Puerto Rico

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Pulcinella

Pulcinella (Pulecenella) is a classical character that originated in commedia dell'arte of the 17th century and became a stock character in Neapolitan puppetry. Punch and Judy and Pulcinella are puppets.

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Punch (magazine)

Punch, or The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells.

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Punch and Judy (song)

"Punch and Judy" is a song by the British neo-prog band Marillion.

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Puppet

A puppet is an object, often resembling a human, animal or mythical figure, that is animated or manipulated by a person called a puppeteer.

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Puritans

The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of what they considered to be Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant.

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Riddley Walker

Riddley Walker is a science fiction novel by American writer Russell Hoban, first published in 1980.

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Rivers of London (novel)

Rivers of London (Midnight Riot in the US) is the first novel in the Rivers of London series by English author Ben Aaronovitch.

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Robin Hood

Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature, theatre, and cinema.

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families.

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Royal Mail

The Royal Mail Group Limited, trading as Royal Mail, is a British postal service and courier company.

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Russell Hoban

Russell Conwell Hoban (February 4, 1925 – December 13, 2011) was an American writer.

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Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator.

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Seaside resort

A seaside resort is a city, town, village, or hotel that serves as a vacation resort and is located on a coast.

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Slapstick

Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy.

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Soap opera

A soap opera, daytime drama, or soap for short, is typically a long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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St James's

St James's is a central district in the City of Westminster, London, forming part of the West End.

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Stanley Donen

Stanley Donen (April 13, 1924 – February 21, 2019) was an American film director and choreographer.

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Street performance

Street performance or busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuities.

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Stuart Restoration

The Stuart Restoration was the re-instatement in May 1660 of the Stuart monarchy in England, Scotland, and Ireland.

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Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute.

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Swazzle

A swazzle (swozzle, schwazzle or swatchel) is a device made of two strips of metal bound around a cotton tape reed.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Target audience

The target audience is the intended audience or readership of a publication, advertisement, or other message catered specifically to the previously intended audience.

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Tavern

A tavern is a type of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and be served food such as different types of roast meats and cheese, and (mostly historically) where travelers would receive lodging.

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Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983–2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman.

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The Batman (TV series)

The Batman is an American animated television series based on the DC Comics superhero Batman.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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Theatre of Cruelty (Discworld)

"Theatre of Cruelty" is a short Discworld story by Terry Pratchett written in 1993.

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Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops (TOTP) is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and broadcast weekly between 1January 1964 and 30 July 2006.

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Trickster

In mythology and the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story (god, goddess, spirit, human or anthropomorphisation) who exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and defy conventional behavior.

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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United Kingdom commemorative stamps 2000–2009

This is a list of the commemorative stamps of the United Kingdom for the years 2000–2009.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University of Exeter

The University of Exeter is a research university in the West Country of England, with its main campus in Exeter, Devon.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Westminster

Westminster is the main settlement of the City of Westminster in London, England.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

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Wisbech

Wisbech is a market town, inland port and civil parish in the Fenland district in Cambridgeshire, England.

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ZX Spectrum

The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit home computer developed and marketed by Sinclair Research.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_and_Judy

Also known as Judy (puppet), Mister punch, Mr Punch, Mr. Punch, Punch & Judy, Punch (puppet), Punch and Judy shows, Punch and judy show, Punch-and-Judy show, That's the way to do it, That's the way to do it!.

, John Payne Collier, Joker (character), Joy Sarney, Judy and Punch, Kasperle, Kazoo, Kyphosis, Letters of Charles Dickens, Licensing Act 1737, London, London Labour and the London Poor, London theatre closure 1642, Lord of Misrule, Marillion, Marionette, Martin Powell (puppetry), Mayfair, Mia Wasikowska, Mirrah Foulkes, Monstrous Regiment (novel), Motley, Musical theatre, Naples, New Zealand, Norrköping, Online and offline, Pan flute, Paris, Philip John Stead, Political cartoon, Pop music, Prop, Puerto Rico, Pulcinella, Punch (magazine), Punch and Judy (song), Puppet, Puritans, Riddley Walker, Rivers of London (novel), Robin Hood, Romeo and Juliet, Royal Mail, Russell Hoban, Samuel Pepys, Seaside resort, Slapstick, Soap opera, South Africa, St James's, Stanley Donen, Street performance, Stuart Restoration, Sundance Film Festival, Swazzle, Sweden, Target audience, Tavern, Terry Pratchett, The Batman (TV series), The Daily Telegraph, Theatre of Cruelty (Discworld), Top of the Pops, Trickster, UK singles chart, United Kingdom commemorative stamps 2000–2009, United States, University of Exeter, Wales, Westminster, William Shakespeare, Wisbech, ZX Spectrum.

Punch and Judy, the Glossary

Table of Contents

See also

1662 establishments in England

English humour

Fictional characters introduced in 1662

Pulcinella

Puppetry in the United Kingdom

References