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Sat 30 Jul, 2011 08:00 am
These folks’ll pay good money for a freak show, but they’re expecting it to stay onstage.
The sentence was talking of a scene in the Globe Theatre back in 1613 London.
What is a freak show, and does the word "it" mean the 'freak' here?
@Nancy88,
"Freak" means far outside normal. A freak show consists of people who are very unusual like extremely fat, extremely tall, deformed in some way, etc. Freak is usually pejorative.
@Nancy88,
It would help with a bit more context, but a freak show is generally the grotesque.
This is an example. It refers to the 'freak show,' it's either saying that the action spilled over into the audience, or that the audience themselves were fairly freakish.
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