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 be then... The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare - Page 284by William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830Full view - About this book
 | Frederick William Sternfeld - 2005 - 334 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...were superseded and Shakespeare could confidently voice his attitude through Hamlet (111.11.42-50) : And let those that play your clowns speak no more...quantity of barren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 shows... | |
 | Christa Jansohn - 2006 - 318 pages
...laughter-raising improvisations, which disrupt the tragic context, should be abandoned altogether: "O, reform it altogether. And let those that play...necessary question of the play be then to be considered" (3.2.38-43). This may, as has been frequently remarked, cast some light on Shakespeare's own theatrical... | |
 | Janette Dillon - 2006 - 296 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...some necessary question of the play be then to be consider'd. That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. William... | |
 | Ed Kovens - 2006 - 188 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...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though in the meantime, some necessary question of the play then be considered: that's villainous, and shows a most... | |
 | Peggy O'Brien, Jeanne Addison Roberts, Michael Tolaydo - 2006 - 288 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...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 shows... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia - 2007 - 267 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...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, of course, this... | |
 | Allan Rich - 2007 - 151 pages
...humanity so abominably. FIRST PLAYER: I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us, sir. HAMLET: O, reform it altogether. And let those that play your...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,... | |
 | ...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... | |
 | Kim Howard Johnson - 2008 - 416 pages
...you're doing a disservice to the work, because it's not the best you can do." In Shakespeare's words: Let those that play your clowns speak no more than...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 shows... | |
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