...must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be play[ xxxiv ] FOREWORD ers that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and...speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought...

...the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O there be players that 30 I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that...- not to speak it profanely - that neither having th' accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed,...

...Players, ofren thought to represent Shakespeare's opinions on the conremporaty acting scene: Hamles. O, there be players that I have seen play — and heard others praise, and neither having th' accent of Chtistians nor the gait of Chtistian, pagan, nor man, have so strurred...

...Horatio Hamlet Horatio Hamlet Hamlet one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. Oh, there be players that I have seen play and heard...speak it profanely, that neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man,29 have so strutted and bellowed that I have...

...grieve; the censure of the which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be players that I have seen play, — and heard...speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought...

...grieve, the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly (not 30 to speak it profanely), that neither having th' accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian,...

...or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ... O! there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise . . . that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated...

...III, scene ii, Shakespeare berates the overacting that he had often witnessed on the stage. He writes: Oh, there be players that I have seen play, and heard...it profanely — that neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought...

...grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard...speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought...

...one developed by Burbage. In this connexion, he discerns a special pertinence in Hamlet's remark, "O there be players that I have seen play, and heard...speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought...