This chapter examines the role of writers, primarily poets and novelists, in the revival of puppet and marionette dramaturgy from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. First, it analyses the relationship between puppeteers and writers, and then it considers puppet theatre as a means of satire and ‘witz’ in the context of German Romanticism. It explores the creation of comprehensive repertoires by Franz von Pocci, Maurice Sand, and Paul Ranson. It highlights the double reading strategies of Louis Edmond Duranty, Marc Monnier, and the Erotikon Theatron, and the introduction of a plurality of meanings by Alfred Jarry. Finally, three successive aesthetic and thematic strands are outlined through plays written since the end of the nineteenth century: the relationship with the past; the invention of poetic theatre; and the ‘splitting’ of the stage between puppets and actors.