 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 340 pages
...have reformed that indifferently with us, sir. HAMLET O, reform it altogether! And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them....quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though w in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 214 pages
...we have reformed that indifferently with us. Hamlet O reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though 40 in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous,... | |
 | Hardin L. Aasand - Drama - 2003 - 242 pages
...Hamlet's contempt for "journeymen" is yet another example of his snobbery. And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them,...some necessary question of the play be then to be consider 'd That 's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. (38-45)... | |
 | 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...the mean time some necessary question of the play is then to be consider'd" (3.2.39-^.3). And a number of dramatic quartos and folios contain statements... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...be of them that will themselves laugh to set on some quantity of barren spectators to 45 laugh to, though in the mean time some necessary question of...that uses it. Go, make you ready. [Exeunt Players. 50 Enter POLONIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN. How now, my lord! Will the King hear this piece of... | |
 | Stephen Unwin - Drama - 2004 - 256 pages
...have reformed that indifferently with us, sir. HAMLET O, reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them;...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 shows... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - Drama - 2005 - 298 pages
...Hamlet, in his advice to the players, attempts to guard against this tendency: let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them,...the mean time some necessary question of the play IK- then to be consulcr'd. That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses... | |
 | Frederick William Sternfeld - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 392 pages
...Shakespeare could confidently voice his attitude through Hamlet (111.11.42-50) : And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them....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 shows... | |
 | Christa Jansohn - English drama - 2006 - 324 pages
...the tragic context, should be abandoned altogether: "O, reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them;...necessary question of the play be then to be considered" (3.2.38-43). This may, as has been frequently remarked, cast some light on Shakespeare's own theatrical... | |
 | Janette Dillon - Drama - 2006 - 39 pages
...invective against clowns who threaten to overwhelm the plays they perform in. And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them,...some necessary question of the play be then to be consider'd. That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. William... | |
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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... 
