ˈpəpə̇trē, -ri noun
( -es )
Etymology: puppet + -ry
1. archaic : mummery 2
the low puppetry of thrones — S.T.Coleridge
2. : the production or creation of puppets or puppet shows
this yearbook … is one of the outstanding contributions to puppetry — Quarterly Journal of Speech
a thriving center of puppetry — Barry Carman
3. : the creation or presence in a literary work of an inadequately motivated character or group of characters
a great modern writer … capable in activity of presenting thoughtful women, thinking men, groaned over his puppetry , that he dared not animate them — George Meredith