英语词汇the immortal tragedian的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

the immortal tragedian. “Seeing him act,” the poet Samuel Coleridge wrote about English actor Edmund Kean, was like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. But Kean who had begun his stage career when only 14, was a “magnificent uncut gem” whose eccentricities and hard drinking wasted his talent away and marked him for an early grave. Once he was involved in an adultery suit that almost banished him from the theater. Backstage in his dressing room he kept a pet lion someone had given him; he often rode his horse, Shylock, wildly through the night streets of London. Even the great actor’s last perfor- mance was in character. While playing Othello to his son Charles’s Iago at Covent Garden in 1833, Kean broke down and fell into his son’s arms. “O God, I am dying. Speak to them, Charles,” were his last words on the stage and the “im- mortal tragedian,” or “horrid little man,” died less than two months later, only 44.

词汇	the immortal tragedian
词源	the immortal tragedian. “Seeing him act,” the poet Samuel Coleridge wrote about English actor Edmund Kean, was like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. But Kean who had begun his stage career when only 14, was a “magnificent uncut gem” whose eccentricities and hard drinking wasted his talent away and marked him for an early grave. Once he was involved in an adultery suit that almost banished him from the theater. Backstage in his dressing room he kept a pet lion someone had given him; he often rode his horse, Shylock, wildly through the night streets of London. Even the great actor’s last perfor- mance was in character. While playing Othello to his son Charles’s Iago at Covent Garden in 1833, Kean broke down and fell into his son’s arms. “O God, I am dying. Speak to them, Charles,” were his last words on the stage and the “im- mortal tragedian,” or “horrid little man,” died less than two months later, only 44.
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