 | English literature - 1837 - 336 pages
...practice is indirectly impeached by' Shakspeare in Hamlet's address to the players, in which he says, " 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 t." The earliest kind of drama... | |
 | 1837 - 348 pages
...practice is indirectly impeached by Shakspeare in Hamlet's address to the players, in which he says, "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 t." The earliest kind of drama... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1837 - 936 pages
...stage from that of Spain, and is the license which Hamlet condemns in his instructions to the players: "And let those that play your clowns speak no more...there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set pn some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too j though, in the meantime, some necessary question... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 214 pages
...abominably. First Player 35 I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. Hamlet O reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns speak...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though 40 in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 340 pages
...abominably. F1RST PLAYER I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us, sir. HAMLET O, reform it altogether! And let those that play your clowns speak...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though w in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous,... | |
 | Patrick Tucker - Performing Arts - 2002 - 316 pages
...HAMLET: O reforme it altogether. And let those that play your Clownes, speake no more then is set downe for them. For there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantme of barten Specrators to laugh too, though in the meane time, some necessary Question of the... | |
 | David J. Baker, Willy Maley - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 322 pages
...complains that the clowns sometimes improvised and stole the audience's attention from the other actors, 'though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be consider'd' (Hamlet 3.2.42-3). In an elegant reading of / Henry I\', James Calderwood argues that Falstaff... | |
 | Alan C. Dessen - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 284 pages
...insertions or substitutions are not of the earth-shaking variety. Hamlet lectures the players that "those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them" (3.2.38-4o), but then or now opportunities to gain some short-term effect are hard to resist. In the... | |
 | Joseph Loewenstein - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 268 pages
...theaters, hut the emergence of an author's theater. in uhich a plavwright might plausihly insist that "those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them." in which. moreover. players and primers had hegun to compete for access to scripts would have suhstamially... | |
 | Richard Louis Levin - Drama - 2003 - 318 pages
..."unauthorized" additions to or deletions from them. Thus Shakespeare has Hamlet insist that clowns should "speak no more than is set down for them, for there...the mean time some necessary question of the play is then to be consider'd" (3.2.39-^.3). And a number of dramatic quartos and folios contain statements... | |
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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... 
