 | 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,...though, in the mean time, some necessary question 4 of the play be then to be considered. That's 1 Termagaunt is the name given in old romances to the... | |
 | Blowhard (pseud.) - 1841 - 304 pages
...respective parts. There was no occasion to give the players Hamlet's advice, " to those that play clowns to speak no more than is set down for them ; for there...'will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of spectators to laugh too ; though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be... | |
 | Blowhard - Sailors - 1841 - 316 pages
...respective parts. There was no occasion to give the players Hamlet's advice, " to those that play clowns to speak no more than is set down for them ; for there...will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of spectators to laugh too ; though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 652 pages
...abominably. 1 Play. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O ! reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than...a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go, make you ready.— [Exeunt Players. Enter POLONIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN. How now, my... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...abominably. 1st Play. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns speak no more than...necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that 's villanous, and shews a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go, make you ready.... | |
 | Art - 1812 - 762 pages
...sweet, and by very much more handsome iban fine."— Ibid, ib. Act III. Se. 3.—" Let those tliat play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them. For there be of them 'hat will themselves laugh to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...abominably. Play. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. 0, reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns speak no more than...question of the play be then to be considered : that's villanous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. 1. What does Hamlet say is... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English wit and humor - 1844 - 198 pages
...raillery and sarcasm with some of the audience. 1 To this absurd custom Hamlet alludes when he says, " And let those that play your clowns speak no more than...some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too." Several specimens, probably genuine, are related in the following pages. Doggrel verse was generally... | |
 | George Jones - 1844 - 302 pages
...attribute the following professional rebuke ?—" And let those who play your clowns (ie low comedians), speak no more than is set down for them ; for there...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, and shews... | |
 | George Jones - 1844 - 278 pages
...attribute the following professional rebuke ?—" And let those who play your clowns (ie low comedians), speak no more than is set down for them ; for there...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, and shews... | |
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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 in the mean time some necessary... 
