 | Frederick William Sternfeld - 2005 - 392 Seiten
...were superseded and Shakespeare could confidently voice his attitude through Hamlet (111.11.42-50) : And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for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... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 2005 - 472 Seiten
...own position and into apparent comments on contemporary acting - 'have so strutted and bellowed' - 'let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them' - that the change of tone may be explained as a device to make Hamlet step outside his part, and indeed... | |
 | Melissa D. Aaron - 2005 - 258 Seiten
...preshow, backstage pep talk that the audience would normally never get to see. I am less convinced that "let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them" (38—40) is a reference to William Kempe and his departure from the company. Ql continues with a long... | |
 | Christa Jansohn - 2006 - 324 Seiten
...laughter-raising improvisations, which disrupt the tragic context, should be abandoned altogether: "O, reform it altogether. 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... | |
 | Ed Kovens - 2006 - 187 Seiten
...scene worked like a charm, and I learned a valuable lesson: Don't try to be funny, PLAY THE SCENE. ...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... | |
 | Janette Dillon - 2006 - 39 Seiten
...of Hamlet's well-known invective against clowns who threaten to overwhelm the plays they perform in. 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... | |
 | Peggy O'Brien - 2006 - 294 Seiten
...clown among the players who come to Elsinore is typical of many an anticlown playwright's position: 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... | |
 | Dick Curtis - 2006 - 230 Seiten
...placed his hands on my shoulders, looked me straight in the eyes and continued, ". . .and let those who play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them ... for to be of them, who would themselves laugh, to set upon some barren quantity of spectators to... | |
 | Allan Rich - 2007 - 166 Seiten
...humanity so abominably. FIRST PLAYER: I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us, sir. HAMLET: O, reform it altogether. 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... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia - 2007 - 16 Seiten
...play, by both his interpolated jokes and the laughter they trigger, his own as well as the audience's: 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... | |
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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... 
