 | Hardin L. Aasand - Drama - 2003 - 242 pages
..."flights of angels" (5.2.360). Hamlet's contempt for "journeymen" is yet another example of his snobbery. And let those that play your clowns speak no more...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be consider 'd That 's villainous, and shows... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...imitated humanity so abominably. /. Play. I hope we have reform 'd that indifferently with us, sir. 41 Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those that play...laugh to set on some quantity of barren spectators to 45 laugh to, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered.... | |
 | Richard Louis Levin - Drama - 2003 - 318 pages
..."unauthorized" additions to or deletions from them. Thus Shakespeare has Hamlet insist that clowns should "speak no more than is set down for them, for there...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play is then to be consider'd" (3.2.39-^.3). And a number... | |
 | Stephen Unwin - Drama - 2004 - 256 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...laugh too; though, in the meantime, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition... | |
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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 be then... 
