...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,...

...that Shakespeare endeavored to check this license in his own behalf when he made Hamlet direct that " Those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them," because conscious that his plays were freighted with much more than ordinarily valuable matter. How,...

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

...they list " — so little attention had been paid to Shakespeare's exhortation in " Hamlet," iii. 2, " Let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them," <fcc. The improvisations of the clown (as stated in the quarto edition of " Hamlet," p. 37) were not...

...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...