...humanity so abominably. 1 Play. I hope, we have reformed that indifferently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns,...them :^ for there be of them, that will themselves [2] The groundlings. — The meaner people then sfem to have sat below, 93 they now Bit in the upper...

...humanity so abominably. 1 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 than is set down for ahem :8 for there be of them, that will themselves [2] The groundlings. — The meaner people then...

...special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of Nature. 47- ACTORS. • Let those who play clowns speak no more than is set down for them. For there be that will themselves laugh to set some quantity of barren spectators to laugh also. This shews a most...

...journeymen had made men, and not made them well; they imitated humanity so abominably. Ham. Oh, reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns, speak...necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous ; and shews a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go make you ready....

...in the time of Shakspeare, and we here see that he had abundant reason for his precept in Hamlet : " Let those that play your clowns, speak no more than...set down for them ; for there be of them, that will of themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though in the mean...

...low comic characters^ which they frequently did, they never lost sight of " and let your clowns say no more than is set down for them : For there be of them," &c. " I have heard some comedians, contemporaries of my own, who have expressed a desire to act Shylock...

...humanity so abominably. I Play. I hope, we have reformed that indiObrently with us. Ham. O, reform it altogether. And let those, that play your clowns,...them : for there be of them, that will themselves langh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to langh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary...

...unseemly interference will perhaps remind the reader of the Clowns spoken of l,\ Shukspeare, who " will themselves laugh to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered." Bon. Passing thousands, I will...

...and unseemly interference will perhaps remind the reader of the Clowns spoken of by Shakspeare, who " will themselves laugh to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered." Bon. Passing thousands, I will...

...word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the- modesty of nature : for be reformed altogether. And let those that play your...necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition; in the fool that uses it." From my own Apartment,...