单词 | guignol |
释义 | Guignoln. a. = Grand Guignol n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a melodrama melodrame?1795 melodrama1804 sensation drama1858 Guignol1882 melo1889 drama1895 Grand Guignol1905 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > puppet-show > types of galanty show1713 ombres chinoises1779 Punch and Judy1828 shadow-play1890 Guignol1923 Guignol1957 1882 G. Meredith Let. 8 Sept. (1970) II. 671 I think you would have been impressed by the Guignol, or rather by an episode in the career of Polichinelle. 1919 G. B. Shaw Great Catherine Pref. 114 They were great sentimental comedians, these Peters, Elizabeths and Catherines who played their Tsarships as eccentric character parts... Catherine kept this vast Guignol Theatre open for nearly half a century. 1923 J. M. Murry Pencillings 205 Molière's attitude to life ‘reminds him too often of the attitude of Punch’—not the famous figure of Guignol, I imagine, but our own comic weekly. 1935 Punch 17 Apr. 440/1 I think the truth is that here are three clever portraits woven into a length of strong Guignol with the ends left loose. 1953 J. Y. Cousteau Silent World 26 Inspired by the camera he enacted fantasies. He leaned down dramatically and clutched a red starfish to his breast. We ‘filmed’ long sequences of his underwater guignol. b. A Punch and Judy show. ΚΠ 1957 Listener 3 Oct. 513/1 Guignol, the French Punch and Judy shows. Derivatives guignoˈlesque adj. and n. ΚΠ 1957 Listener 18 July 101/1 The Roman ghost in a Senecan shroud stalked through the guignolesque sensationalism of the minor Jacobeans. 1964 C. Wildman tr. E. Ionesco in Listener 24 Dec. 1002/1 Ionesco: I was in the gardens of the Tuileries or the Luxembourg, and I saw the Guignol. Wildman: Punch and Judy! They are violent too! Ionesco: Indeed. After that, I've always sought the guignolesque, in other words, an extremely schematic, simplified, elemental and caricatural type of theatre... A kind of theatre very close to Jarry. In Ubu-Roi, Jarry wrote a play which is guignolesque. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1882 |
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