| 单词 | toby show |
| 释义 | > as lemmasToby show 8. (With capital initial.) The name of a stock character of U.S. comedy (see quot. 1961), used attributively, esp. in Toby show. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] > specific character Robin Hood1473 wantonness1507 vice1552 pantaloon1592 iniquity1597 burratinea1637 scaramouch1662 Pierrot1726 gracioso1749 eiron1872 alazon1911 toby1946 1946 Theatre Arts Nov. 652/1 Young actors who have played juveniles or ingenues with a Toby show seldom succumb to first-night nerves in later years. 1961 W. P. Bowman & R. H. Ball Theatre Lang. 393 Toby,..a comic character type, a boisterous, blundering yokel as the protagonist. Hence Toby play (or show), a repertory favorite. 1964 Tennessee Folklore Soc. Bull. June 49 Bisbee's Comedians..is one of the two surviving Toby Shows left in the entire country. 1967 Oxf. Compan. Theatre (ed. 3) 949/1 Most travelling dramatic tent-shows, playing one-week stands in rural communities, feature a Toby-comedian. 1967 Oxf. Compan. Theatre (ed. 3) 949/1 Frederick R. Wilson, member of a touring tent-show company known as Horace Murphy's Comedians, was the first of a long line of actors to specialize in Toby roles. 1967 Oxf. Compan. Theatre (ed. 3) 949/1 Toby-comedy includes generous use of the topical ‘ad-lib’. 1978 Chicago June 56/2 We thought this [sc. donkey baseball] had gone the way of the Toby shows. < as lemmas |
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