...your honour. Play. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns speak no more...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...

...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...for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too." 1 See Malone's Shakespeare, ed. 1821, iii.,...

...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...for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too." Several specimens, probably genuine, are related...

...humanity so abominably. I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us, sir. Oh, reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns speak no more...for there be of them that will themselves laugh to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime, some necessary question...

...First Player I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us, sir. Hamlet O, reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns speak no more...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...

...have reformed that indifferently with us. HAMLET O, reform it altogether! And let those that play 38 your clowns speak no more than is set down for them,...for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set 39 on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, 40 though in the meantime some necessary...

...about too much. He is particularly stern on clowns who play their parts for 'laughs'. He says, '. . .let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them - for there be some of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too,...

...1599. And he even shares a measure of Jonsons anxiety when he has Hamlet urge the traveling actors to "let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them," since unscripted improvisation prompts "barren spectators" to laugh when "some necessary question of...

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

...F1RST PLAYER I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us, sir. HAMLET O, reform it altogether! And let those that play your clowns speak no more...For there be of them that will themselves laugh to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though w in the meantime some necessary question...