 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 522 pages
...with us. Ham. 0, reform it altogether. And let those, that plav your clowns, speak no more than ¡я set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves lausrh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 536 pages
...indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns, speak.no more than is set down for them ; for there be of them,...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question 4 of the play be then to be considered. That's 1 Termagaunt is the... | |
 | James Bednarz - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 358 pages
...1599. And he even shares a measure of Jonsons anxiety when he has Hamlet urge the traveling actors to "let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them," since unscripted improvisation prompts "barren spectators" to laugh when "some necessary question of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. Hamlet — Hamlet IIIM And let those that play your clowns speak no more...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villanous, and shows... | |
 | Alexander Leggatt - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 260 pages
...him, of his idle jests as well as of his scurrilous jigs, often used to conclude a performance: '5 And let those that play your clowns speak no more...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be consider'd. That's villainous and shows... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 214 pages
...First Player 35 I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. Hamlet O reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns speak no more...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though 40 in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 340 pages
...F1RST PLAYER I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us, sir. HAMLET O, reform it altogether! And let those that play your clowns speak no more...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though w in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous,... | |
 | Patrick Tucker - Performing Arts - 2002 - 316 pages
...HAMLET: O reforme it altogether. And let those that play your Clownes, speake no more then is set downe for them. For there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantme of barten Specrators to laugh too, though in the meane time, some necessary Question of the... | |
 | Alan C. Dessen - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 284 pages
...insertions or substitutions are not of the earth-shaking variety. Hamlet lectures the players that "those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them" (3.2.38-4o), but then or now opportunities to gain some short-term effect are hard to resist. In the... | |
 | Joseph Loewenstein - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 268 pages
...theaters, hut the emergence of an author's theater. in uhich a plavwright might plausihly insist that "those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them." in which. moreover. players and primers had hegun to compete for access to scripts would have suhstamially... | |
| |
And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play... 
