King Stag is a play originally written in 1762 by Italian playwright and champion of Commedia dell´arte Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806). It is about love and conspiracy at the court of King Deramo. In search of a bride, Deramo falls victim to the intrigues of his adversary Tartaglia and is temporarily transformed into a stag.In 1918, on the occasion of a major art exhibition staged in Zurich by the modernist association Swiss Werkbund, Swiss dramatist René Morax (1873-1963) and director Werner Wolff (1886-1972) produced a modern adaption of Gozzi´s fairy-tale play that turned it into an amusing parody of Sigmund Freud´s and Carl Gustav Jung´s psychoanalysis, which had caused much controversy in Zurich at the time. The production was conceived as a puppetry, for which avant-garde artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943) designed the stage sets and created an ensemble of 17 radically abstracted marionettes that broke with every tradition of the genre.This book offers the first English translation o