 | John Payne Collier - Actors - 1853 - 676 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...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous, and shows... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...languages, and stolen the scraps. 0, they have lived long in the alms-basket of words. 8 — v. 1. 205. Let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. 36 — iii. 2. 206. This life... | |
 | 1853 - 352 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...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous, and shows... | |
 | Great Britain. Office of the Revels - Business & Economics - 1853 - 486 pages
...raillery and sarcasm with some of the audience.i To this absurd eustom 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 574 pages
...men," and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. 1 Play. I hope we have reform'd that indifferently with us. Ham. O ! reform it altogether....of barren spectators to laugh too ; though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous, and shows... | |
 | Elocution - 1856 - 286 pages
...humanity so abominably. 1 st Act. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. (c.) Oh, reform it altogether. And let those that play your...of barren spectators to laugh too; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play ho then to be considered : that 's villainous ; and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 488 pages
...nature's journeymen had^made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. 1st Play. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to bo considered : that's villanous ; and shows... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 734 pages
...imitated humanity so abominably. First Play. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us, sir. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those that play...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villanous, and shows... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...of nature's journeymen had made them, and not made them well, they imitated humanity BO abominably. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play...of barren spectators to laugh too; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villanous; and shows... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pages
...imitated humanity so abominably. 162 1st Play. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. 0, reform it altogether. And let those that play your...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that 's villanous, and shews... | |
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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... 
