 | William Shakespeare, Joyce E. Henry - Political Science - 2002 - 228 pages
...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;...a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Hamlet— Hamlet III.ii O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player... | |
 | Alexander Leggatt - Literary Collections - 2002 - 237 pages
...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;...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. (3.2.38-45)... | |
 | Stephen Orgel - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 276 pages
...seems, in Hamlet, to be especially concerned about the dangers of improvisation: 4 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. (3.2.426°.) But in Hamlet's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 1344 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 in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous, and shows... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 320 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 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2002 - 178 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 - 234 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 - 309 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 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 313 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 - Performing Arts - 2004 - 248 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... | |
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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... 
