 | Thomas Baier - Amphitryon (Greek mythology) in literature - 1999 - 264 pages
...Hamlet wohl bewußt, als er die zur Entlarvung des Claudius engagierten Schauspieler mahnte: [...] let those that play your clowns speak no more than...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... | |
 | 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...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be consider'd," he concludes: "That's villainous,... | |
 | 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...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... 
