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Kheimeh Shab Bazi: Iranian Traditional Marionette Theatre
- Asian Theatre Journal
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 26, Number 2, Fall 2009
- pp. 260-280
- 10.1353/atj.0.0053
- Article
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Kheimeh shab bazi is a traditional marionette form of Iran. The historical background is obscure, though we find references to puppetry in literature and travel reports. The practice of the art in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Iran is detailed.