The New Student's Reference Work/Punch and Judy

Punch and Judy, the chief characters in a popular, comic puppet-show of Italian origin.  It is generally ascribed to Silvio Tiorillo, an Italian comedian who flourished about 1600.  The performance of the play requires only two persons, one to carry the theater and work the figures, the other to bear the box of puppets, blow the trumpet and sometimes keep up the dialogue with the hero of the piece.