...abominably. i 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...on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, 40 though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous,...

...Alleyn retired from the stage early and became a wealthy businessman. no And let those that play jour clowns speak no more than is set down for them -for...some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too... HAMLET, ACT 3, SCENE 2 Will Kemp, another clown in Shakespeare's company, was famous for dancing a...

...instructions in act three, should be strictly supervised lest they overstep the boundaries of drama: 'And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them' (3.2.34-5). In Hamlet's reformed theatre, it was the dangerous excess of improvised performance, especially...

...had a company of actorauthors, making plays as they spoke them. Hamlet's " O reform it altogether, and let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them," shows that the effects of this custom lasted in England until Shakespear's time, at least in connection...

...preshow, backstage pep talk that the audience would normally never get to see. I am less convinced that "let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them" (38—40) is a reference to William Kempe and his departure from the company. Ql continues with a long...

...own position and into apparent comments on contemporary acting - 'have so strutted and bellowed' - 'let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them' - that the change of tone may be explained as a device to make Hamlet step outside his part, and indeed...

...scene worked like a charm, and I learned a valuable lesson: Don't try to be funny, PLAY THE SCENE. ...and let those that play your clowns speak no more...laugh too; though in the meantime, some necessary question of the play then be considered: that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the...

...clown among the players who come to Elsinore is typical of many an anticlown playwright's position: And let those that play your clowns speak no more...to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous and shows a most pitiful ambition...

...improvisations, which disrupt the tragic context, should be abandoned altogether: "O, reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns speak no more...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered" (3.2.38-43). This may, as has...

...of Hamlet's well-known invective against clowns who threaten to overwhelm the plays they perform in. And let those that play your clowns speak no more...quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be consider'd. That's villainous, and shows...