...nature's journeymen liad made men, and not made them well; they imitated humanity so abominably. — And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is sot down for them; for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren...

...believe it to be an interpolation, and we are inclined to agree with them. Cf. Ham. iii. 2. 42 : " And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them," etc. See our ed. p. 221. The prophecy is an imitation of one formerly ascribed to Chaucer: " Whan prestis...

...First Play. I hope we have refonn'd that indifferently with us. air. Il'tin. 0, reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is •set down for them; for there he of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ;...

...in the prompter's book. It is with reference lo this practice that Hamlet exhorts the players, — "Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them." And ihe severity with which the custom is there reproved looks as if the Poet had himself suffered...

...prompter's book. It is with reference to this practice that Hamlet exhorts the players, — "Let lhos« that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them." And the severity with which the custom is there reproved lookd as if the Poet had himself suffered...

...believe it to be an interpolation, and we are inclined to agree with them. Cf. Ham. iii. 2. 42 : " And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them," etc. See our ed. p. 221. The prophecy is an imitation of one formerly ascribed to Chaucer: "Whan prestis...

...(1601), " Illo, ho, ho, ho ! art thou there, old Truepenny ? " must refer to Hamlet. In iii. 2. 42, " Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them," refers, I think, to extemporising Kempe, who left Shakespeare's company in 1599. Florio's Montaigne,...

...(1601), " IIlo, ho, ho, ho ! art thou there, old Truepenny ? " must refer to Hamlet. In iii. 2. 42, " Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them," refers, I think, to extemporising Kempe, who left Shakespeare's company in 1599. Florio's Montaigne,...

...(1601), " Illo, ho, ho, ho ! art thou there, old Truepenny ? " must refer to Hamlet. In iii. 2. 42, " Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them," refers, I think, to extemporising Kempe, who left Shakespeare's company in 1599. Florio's Montaigne,...

...Hamlet's advice to the Players (llLii) is Shakespeare's own (his groundlings 'capable of nothing'?). 'Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them' is especially not the advice of a practising playwright, and RG Collingwood would agree: 'Tell the...