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 Tatler - Seite 2661803Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1844 - 198 Seiten
...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... | |
| Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1844 - 192 Seiten
...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... | |
| George Jones - 1844 - 278 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...humanity so abominably. I 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 than is set down for them : for there • tifthom, that will themselves laugh , to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too... | |
| General reciter - 1845 - 348 Seiten
...of Nature's journeymen had made men, and uot made them well ; they imitated humanity so abominably. And let those that play your clowns, speak no more...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 Seiten
...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... | |
| Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 390 Seiten
...reflection shew each man All his deformities both of soul and body, And cure 'em both. III. 2. HAMLET. And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them. It is well shewn in the notes that in the infancy of the the English drama, that is, before the time... | |
| William Harrison Ainsworth - 1845 - 594 Seiten
...Come, more — another stanza.' ('As You Like It.') Why the devil did you speak to the audience? ' Let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them: a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.' " " I wath compelled to thay thomthing to the fellow... | |
| Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1846 - 362 Seiten
...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... | |
| Merritt Caldwell - 1846 - 390 Seiten
...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... | |
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