 | David Wiles - 2005 - 244 pages
...excavate. Shakespeare's commentary upon the clown's art in Hamlet is an obvious point at which to begin: And let those that play your clowns speak no more...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered; that's villainous, and shows... | |
 | Michael A. Anderegg - 1991 - 332 pages
...took liberties with the ordered texts of the dramatist. To avoid any such possibilities, Hamlet warns: "And let those that play your clowns speak no more...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered."22 For critics of Good Morning,... | |
 | Frangois Laroque - 1993 - 444 pages
...perform his play that it is no part of his plan for them to indulge in such flights of buffoonery: And let those that play your clowns speak no more...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous, and shows... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 pages
...humanity so abominably. PLAYER II hope we have reformed that indifferently with us, sir. HAMLET O, reform it altogether. And let those that play your...on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, 40 though 1n the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous,... | |
 | Richard Helgerson - 1992 - 390 pages
...few months after Kemp's departure from the Chamberlain's Men, Hamlet pointed to its primary cause. "Let those that play your clowns speak no more than...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous, and shows... | |
 | Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 pages
...body of the time his form and pressure. (To GRAVEDIGGER, POLONIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN.) And let those that play your clowns speak no more...on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, as though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous... | |
 | Louis Montrose - 1996 - 246 pages
...censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others" (3.2.1719, 24-28); "And let those that play your clowns speak no more...necessary question of the play be then to be considered" (38-43). It is the elite perspective of the learned and courtly reader and auditor — rather than... | |
 | Volker Zumbrink - 1997 - 524 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Baier - 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...necessary question of the play be then to be considered; that' s villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.59 Die Neigung des Spaßmachers... | |
 | Mary Thomas Crane - 2010 - 276 pages
...agency and social mobility that are of central concern in the earlier play. Having urged the players to "let those that play your clowns speak no more than...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be consider'd," he concludes: "That's villainous,... | |
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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... 
