 | Ian Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 564 pages
...Chamberlain's Men's fellows may well be indicated in Hamlet in which Hamlet pointedly urges his actors: And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them — 21 Was this an allusion to Kemp having outworn his extempore style of comic acting? Certainly after... | |
 | Ian Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 564 pages
...Chamberlain's Men's fellows may well be indicated in Hamlet in which Hamlet pointedly urges his actors: And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them—21 Was this an allusion to Kemp having outworn his extempore style of comic acting? Certainly... | |
 | Mary Thomas Crane - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 276 pages
...agency and social mobility that are of central concern in the earlier play. Having urged the players to "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... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...they imitated humanity so abominably. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us, sir. Oh, reform it altogether. And let those that play your...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... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 40 pages
...about too much. He is particularly stern on clowns who play their parts for 'laughs'. He says, '. . .let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them - for there be some of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too,... | |
 | James Bednarz - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 358 pages
...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 question of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 340 pages
...humanity so abominably. F1RST PLAYER I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us, sir. HAMLET O, reform it altogether! And let those that play your...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...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 to laugh too, though... | |
 | Alexander Leggatt - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 260 pages
...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 to laugh too, though... | |
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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... 
