Middle Ages and Renaissance
Italy is considered by many to be the early home of the marionette thanks to the influence of Roman puppetry. Xenophon and Plutarch refer to them. The Christian church used marionettes to perform morality plays. It is believed that the term marionette' emerged around 1600. Comedy sneaked into the plays as time went by and ultimately, puppeteers responded by setting up stages outside cathedrals and became ever more ribald and slapstick. Out of this grew the Italian comedy called commedia dell'arte Puppets were used at times in this form of threate.
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