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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... "
The Handy-volume Shakspeare [ed. by Q.D.]. - Page 65
by William Shakespeare - 1867
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 532 pages
...well, they imitated humanity so abominably. 1 Play. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those that play...though, in the mean time, some necessary question 4 of the play be then to be considered. That's 1 Termagaunt is the name given in old romances to the...
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The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 602 pages
...well, they imitated humanity so abominably. 1 Play. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those that play...though, in the mean time, some necessary question 4 of the play be then to be considered. That's 1 Termagaunt is the name given in old romances to the...
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The Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 570 pages
...well, they imitated humanity so abominably. 1 Play. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the meantime, some necessary question § of the play be then to be considered : that's villanous : and...
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Dramatic Works: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed; with ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 574 pages
...imitated humanity so abominably. 1 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 meantime, some necessary question § of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous ; and...
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Memoirs of the Principal Actors in the Plays of Shakespeare, Volume 16

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...question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it." These words read as if they...
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Publications, Volume 16

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...question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it." These words read as if they...
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The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy ...

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...necessary question of the play be then to be considered. 36 — iii. 2. 206. This life Is nobler, than attending for a check ; Richer than doing nothing for...
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The plays of Shakspere, carefully revised [by J.O.] with ..., Part 166, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...they imitated humanity so abominably. 1 l»i Play. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those that play...though, in the mean time, some necessary question of tbe play be then to be considered : that 's villanous, and shews a most pitiful ambition in the fool...
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The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from ...

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 420 pages
...imitated humanity so abominably. Play. I tope., we have reformed that indifferently with us. ll'iin. O, reform it altogether. And, let those that play...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though in the meantime, some necessary questiont of the play be then to be considered: that's villanous; and snows...
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Extracts from the Accounts of the Revels at Court, in the Reigns of Queen ...

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...
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