英语词汇wake me up when kirby dies的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

wake me up when Kirby dies. Theater buffs will be inter- ested in this old catchphrase not heard anymore but whose story is well worth hearing. The tale is told in Charles Hem- street’s When Old New York Was Young (1902): “Something more than sixty years ago [in about 1840] the attention of theatergoers was directed to a young actor who appeared at intervals in the Chatham Theatre. He was J. Hudson Kirby. His acting had not much merit, but he persisted in a theory that made him famous. It was his idea that an actor should re- serve all his strength for scenes of carnage and death. The ear- lier acts of a play he passed through carelessly, but when he came to death scenes he threw himself into them with such force and fury that they came to be the talk of the town. Some of the spectators found the earlier acts so dull and tiresome that they went asleep, taking the precaution, however, to nudge their neighbor, with the request to wake them up for the death scene. And for long years after Kirby’s time, the catch-phrase applied to any supreme effort was ‘Wake me up when Kirby dies.’ ”

词汇	wake me up when kirby dies
词源	wake me up when Kirby dies. Theater buffs will be inter- ested in this old catchphrase not heard anymore but whose story is well worth hearing. The tale is told in Charles Hem- street’s When Old New York Was Young (1902): “Something more than sixty years ago [in about 1840] the attention of theatergoers was directed to a young actor who appeared at intervals in the Chatham Theatre. He was J. Hudson Kirby. His acting had not much merit, but he persisted in a theory that made him famous. It was his idea that an actor should re- serve all his strength for scenes of carnage and death. The ear- lier acts of a play he passed through carelessly, but when he came to death scenes he threw himself into them with such force and fury that they came to be the talk of the town. Some of the spectators found the earlier acts so dull and tiresome that they went asleep, taking the precaution, however, to nudge their neighbor, with the request to wake them up for the death scene. And for long years after Kirby’s time, the catch-phrase applied to any supreme effort was ‘Wake me up when Kirby dies.’ ”
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