英语词汇penny theaters的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Penny Theaters. Small makeshift theaters that charged only a penny for admission were common in England and France during the early 19th century. These theaters held only about a hundred people and put on several shows nightly. The plays presented were usually crude, lurid melodramas catering to what were called “the lower classes.” One such play, entitled The Red-Nosed Monster or The Tyrant of the Mountains (c. 1850) was a kind of early Western in which the lone hero rescued the heroine from the Indians. The cast included the Red-nosed Monster (the Indian), the Assassin, the Ruffian of the Hur, the Villain of the Valley, the Wife of the Red-Nosed Monster, the Daughter of the Assassin, and of course the Hero and the Hero- ine. The theaters themselves might be said to be the ancestors of the little theaters (the equivalent of Off-Off Broadway play- houses) of today.

词汇	penny theaters
词源	Penny Theaters. Small makeshift theaters that charged only a penny for admission were common in England and France during the early 19th century. These theaters held only about a hundred people and put on several shows nightly. The plays presented were usually crude, lurid melodramas catering to what were called “the lower classes.” One such play, entitled The Red-Nosed Monster or The Tyrant of the Mountains (c. 1850) was a kind of early Western in which the lone hero rescued the heroine from the Indians. The cast included the Red-nosed Monster (the Indian), the Assassin, the Ruffian of the Hur, the Villain of the Valley, the Wife of the Red-Nosed Monster, the Daughter of the Assassin, and of course the Hero and the Hero- ine. The theaters themselves might be said to be the ancestors of the little theaters (the equivalent of Off-Off Broadway play- houses) of today.
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