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 Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare - Page 284by William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830Full view - About this book
| Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1844 - 192 pages
...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... | |
| James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English wit and humor - 1844 - 198 pages
...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... | |
| George Jones - 1844 - 278 pages
...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... | |
| Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1845 - 352 pages
...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... | |
| General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...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... | |
| Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1846 - 362 pages
...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 - Elocution - 1846 - 390 pages
...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 pages
...allowance, 3 o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be players, that I have seen play,—and heard others praise, and that highly,—not to speak...question * of the play be then to be considered. That's 1 Termagauni is the name given in old romances to the tempestuous god of the Saracens. * The quarto... | |
| Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...Nature's journeymen had made them, and not 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 villainous, and... | |
| Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...could have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing terma-gant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. And let those that play your clowns speak no more...of bar-ren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the meantime, name necessary question of the \>Vay be then to be cpna'dered :—that's villainous, and... | |
| |