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... The Monthly Magazine - Page 251812Full view - About this book
| Mary Thomas Crane - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 276 pages
..."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 to be consider'd," he concludes: "That's villainous, and shows... | |
| Robert Weimann - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 324 pages
...of a serious conference, without blushing" (299). Here may well be a remaining link with those "that will themselves laugh to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too" (Hamlet 3.2.40-42), even when such laughter, to use printer Jones' phrase, was "far unmeet for the... | |
| Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...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...spectators to laugh too; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful... | |
| 1984 - 472 pages
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| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...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 meantime, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous, and shows... | |
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