 | Frederick William Sternfeld - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 392 pages
...were superseded and Shakespeare could confidently voice his attitude through Hamlet (111.11.42-50) : And let those that play your clowns speak no more...on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous,... | |
 | Kathy Elgin - England - 2005 - 36 pages
...Alleyn retired from the stage early and became a wealthy businessman. no And let those that play jour clowns speak no more than is set down for them -for...some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too... HAMLET, ACT 3, SCENE 2 Will Kemp, another clown in Shakespeare's company, was famous for dancing a... | |
 | Christa Jansohn - English drama - 2006 - 324 pages
...improvisations, which disrupt the tragic context, should be abandoned altogether: "O, reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns speak no more...on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered" (3.2.38-43).... | |
 | Ed Kovens - Drama - 2006 - 187 pages
...scene worked like a charm, and I learned a valuable lesson: Don't try to be funny, PLAY THE SCENE. ...and let those that play your clowns speak no more...on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though in the meantime, some necessary question of the play then be considered: that's villainous,... | |
 | Peggy O'Brien - Drama - 2006 - 292 pages
...clown among the players who come to Elsinore is typical of many an anticlown playwright's position: And let those that play your clowns speak no more...on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous... | |
 | Janette Dillon - Drama - 2006 - 39 pages
...of Hamlet's well-known invective against clowns who threaten to overwhelm the plays they perform in. And let those that play your clowns speak no more...on some 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,... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 16 pages
...play, by both his interpolated jokes and the laughter they trigger, his own as well as the audience's: And let those that play your Clowns speak no more...on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. (38-43). But,... | |
 | 100 pages
...asked to leave due to his chronic improvising, and that Shakespeare made reference to this in Hamlet. And let those that play your clowns speak no more...on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too (3.2.40-5) Once Kempe left the troupe Shakespeare's comic characters changed dramatically, indicating... | |
 | Allan Rich - Performing Arts - 2007 - 168 pages
...FIRST 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...set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh to, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villanous,... | |
 | Matthew Steggle - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 182 pages
...repeated a few years later in the dialogue of Hamlet, when Hamlet warns: "Let not your clowns speak more than is set down for them; for there be of them...on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too . ..". Hamlet goes on to complain about other devices used by clowns, notably "blabbering lips", and... | |
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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... 
