...example, rails against "the Tamerlanes and Tamer-Chams of the late Age, which had nothing in them but scenicall strutting, and furious vociferation, to warrant them to the ignorant gapers." Joseph Hall emphasizes Tamburlaine's power (his "vaunt[ing]" voice and "Big-sounding sentences") to...

...seventeenth century. In one of his attacks on the theatre Ben Jonson describes the fictional heroes 'of the late Age, which had nothing in them but the...vociferation, to warrant them to the ignorant gapers' ( 1 947: 587). His contemporaries shared his sense of an old-fashioned style. They called it 'stalking',...

...from the vulgar somewhat; it shall not fly from all humanity, with the Ta.merla.nes, and Tamer-Chams, of the late Age, which had nothing in them but the...strutting, and furious vociferation, to warrant them them to the ignorant gapers. (8: 587) It is young, censorious Joseph Hall, writing about ten years...

...directed against noisy overacting. Jonson in Timber (1632) scorned the 'Tamerlanes, and Tamer-chams of the late Age, which had nothing in them but the...vociferation, to warrant them to the ignorant gapers'. Its players were 'terrible teare-throats', its clown a 'roaring Rimer', its tragedians created a simile...

...strutting and furious vociferation to warrant them to the ignorant gapers. He knows it is his only art, so to carry it as none but artificers perceive it. In the meantime, perhaps, he is called barren, dull, lean, a poor writer, or by what contumelious word can...