China: A puppet show draws an audience. Yuan Dynasty handscroll painting, 14th century. Story-tellers and puppeteers in China entertained city-dwellers with much the same stories that playwrights worked into their dramatic texts. Detail from a fourteenth-century handscroll in ink and colour on paper.

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