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Guignol|giɲɔl, giːˈnjɒl|
[see Grand Guignol.]
a. = Grand Guignol.
b. A Punch and Judy show. Hence guignoˈlesque a. and n.
1882G. 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. 1919G. 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. 1923J. M. Murray 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. 1935Punch 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. 1953J. 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. 1957Listener 18 July 101/1 The Roman ghost in a Senecan shroud stalked through the guignolesque sensationalism of the minor Jacobeans. Ibid. 3 Oct. 513/1 Guignol, the French Punch and Judy shows. 1964C. 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. |