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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... "
The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of ... - Page 137
by William Shakespeare - 1809
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The general reciter; a unique selection of the most admired and popular ...

General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...of Nature's journeymen had made men, and uot made them well ; they imitated humanity so abominably. 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 :...
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New Illustrations of the Life, Studies, and Writings of Shakespeare, Volume 2

Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 390 pages
...reflection shew each man All his deformities both of soul and body, And cure 'em both. III. 2. HAMLET. And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them. It is well shewn in the notes that in the infancy of the the English drama, that is, before the time...
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Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature ..., Volume 7

William Harrison Ainsworth - English literature - 1845 - 594 pages
...Come, more — another stanza.' ('As You Like It.') Why the devil did you speak to the audience? ' Let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them: a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.' " " I wath compelled to thay thomthing to the fellow...
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A Practical Manual of Elocution: Embracing Voice and Gesture ...

Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1846 - 390 pages
...grieve; the censure of one of which, must in your allowance overweigh a whole theatre of others. " 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 ;...
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Publications, Issue 32

Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1846 - 362 pages
...imputed by Shakespeare, in a well known passage of his " Hamlet," to actors of Kemp's description : " 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...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. 1 Play. I hope, we have reformed that be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ;...
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King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 pages
...and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. 1 Play. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether....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;...
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The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic ...

Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...could have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing terma-gant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. 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 bar-ren spectators to laugh too ;...
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The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic ...

Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...Nature's journeymen had made them, and not made them well— they imitated humanity so abominably. 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 ;...
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Studien zu Plautus' Amphitruo

Thomas Baier - Amphitryon - 1999 - 264 pages
...Hamlet wohl bewußt, als er die zur Entlarvung des Claudius engagierten Schauspieler mahnte: [...] 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,...
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