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... The Handy-volume Shakspeare [ed. by Q.D.]. - Page 65by William Shakespeare - 1867Full view - About this book
| Ed Kovens - Drama - 2006 - 187 pages
...scene worked like a charm, and I learned a valuable lesson: Don't try to be funny, PLAY THE SCENE. ...and let those that play your clowns speak no more...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though in the meantime, some necessary question of the play then be considered: that's villainous, and shows a most... | |
| Margreta de Grazia - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 16 pages
...play, by both his interpolated jokes and the laughter they trigger, his own as well as the audience's: And let those that play your Clowns speak no more...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. (38-43). But, of course, this... | |
| 100 pages
...asked to leave due to his chronic improvising, and that Shakespeare made reference to this in Hamlet. And let those that play your clowns speak no more...on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too (3.2.40-5) Once Kempe left the troupe Shakespeare's comic characters changed dramatically, indicating... | |
| Kim Howard Johnson - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 433 pages
...you're doing a disservice to the work, because it's not the best you can do." In Shakespeare's words: Let those that play your clowns speak no more than...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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