...raillery and sarcasm with some of the audience.1 To this absurd custom Hamlet alludes when he says, " And let those that play your clowns speak no more...some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too." 1 See Malone's Shakespeare, ed. 1821, iii., 131, for several curious quotations on this subject. Several...

...raillery and sarcasm with some of the audience. 1 To this absurd custom 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...

...attribute the following professional rebuke ?—" And let those who play your clowns (ie low comedians), speak no more than is set down for them ; for there...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 shews...

...of Nature's journeymen had made men, and uot made them well ; they imitated humanity so abominably. And let those that play your clowns, speak no more...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...

...judicious grieve; the censure of one of which, must in your allowance overweigh a whole theatre of others. "And let those that play your clowns speak no more...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though in the meantime, some necessary part of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous, and shows a...

...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...the mean time some necessary question of the play bo then to be considered : that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses...

...grieve; the censure of one of which, must in your allowance overweigh a whole theatre of others. " And let those that play your clowns speak no more...of barren spectators to laugh too ; though in the meantime, some necessary part of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous, and shows a...

...others. O, there be players, that I have seen play,—and heard others praise, and that highly,—not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent...question * of the play be then to be considered. That's 1 Termagauni is the name given in old romances to the tempestuous god of the Saracens. * The quarto...

...could have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing terma-gant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it. And let those that play your clowns speak no more...of bar-ren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the meantime, name necessary question of the \>Vay be then to be cpna'dered :—that's villainous, and...

...Nature's journeymen had made them, and not made them well— they imitated humanity so abominably. And let those that play your clowns speak no more...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...