...1599. And he even shares a measure of Jonsons anxiety when he has Hamlet urge the traveling actors to "let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them," since unscripted improvisation prompts "barren spectators" to laugh when "some necessary...

...O, reform it altogether! And let those that play 38 your clowns speak no more than is set down for them, for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set 39 on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, 40 though in the meantime some necessary question...

...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...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,...

...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 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...

...journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. Hamlet — Hamlet IIIM 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...

...him, of his idle jests as well as of his scurrilous jigs, often used to conclude a performance: '5 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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...abominably. /. Play. I hope we have reform 'd that indifferently with us, sir. 41 Ham. 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...