 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...  A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose - Page 4001872 - 534 lehteFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 364 lehte
...your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there he of them, that will thimiselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators...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. Go, make you ready.... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 lehte
...your honour. 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...a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. 1. What does Hamlet say is the true end of playing ? 2. What " offends him to the soul ? " 3. How are... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 364 lehte
...Herod in the ancient mysteries vras always violent. 3 te impression or resemblance, as in a print. that play your clowns speak no more than is set down...necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that 's villanous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go ; make you ready.... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1844 - 192 lehte
...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...some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too." 1 See Malone's Shakespeare, ed. 1821, iii., 131, for several curious quotations on this subject. Several... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1844 - 198 lehte
...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...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 - 278 lehte
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 lehte
...let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there • tifthom, that will themselves laugh , to set on some quantity...necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that 's villainous , and shows a most pitiful amhition in the fool that uses it. Go , make you ready.... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 lehte
...have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and uot made them well ; they imitated humanity so abominably....of barren spectators to laugh too : though, in the meantime, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : — that's villanous : and... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 352 lehte
...judicious grieve; the censure of one of which, must in your allowance overweigh a whole theatre of others. "And let those that play your clowns speak no more...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though in the meantime, some necessary part of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous, and shows a... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1846 - 362 lehte
...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...the mean time some necessary question of the play bo then to be considered : that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses... | |
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