...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...question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it." These words read as if they...

...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...question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it." These words read as if they...

...languages, and stolen the scraps. 0, they have lived long in the alms-basket of words. 8 — v. 1. 205. Let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than...necessary question of the play be then to be considered. 36 — iii. 2. 206. This life Is nobler, than attending for a check ; Richer than doing nothing for...

...abominably. 1 l»i 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...though, in the mean time, some necessary question of tbe play be then to be considered : that 's villanous, and shews a most pitiful ambition in the fool...

...abominably. Play. I tope., we have reformed that indifferently with us. ll'iin. O, reform it altogether. And, let those that play your clowns, speak no more...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though in the meantime, some necessary questiont of the play be then to be considered: that's villanous; and snows...

...raillery and sarcasm with some of the audience.i To this absurd eustom Hamlet alludes when he says, " And let those that play your clowns speak no more...some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too." Several specimens, probably genuine, are related in the following pages. Doggrel verse was generally...

...abominably. 1 Play. I hope we have reform'd that indifferently with us. Ham. O ! reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns speak no more...question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go, make you ready. — [Exeunt...

...abominably. 1 st Act. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. (c.) Oh, reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns speak no more...the mean time, some necessary question of the play ho then to be considered : that 's villainous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that...

...altogether. And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for :here be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on...time, some necessary question of the play be then to ie considered : that 's villainous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go,...

...ironische Weise, was Hamlet in seinen 'Regeln für Schauspieler' von den Narren und Hanswursten verlangt: and let those that play your clowns speak no more...on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh, too (1097). Wilhelm, zwar kein Narr, aber des öfteren töricht, ist mit der "Hamlet"Premiere von der Aufgabe...