Hamlet ... And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them; 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 of the play be then to be considered...
http://academia.wikia.com/wiki/Motifs_in_Hamlet#When_Your_Clowns_Speak
2007-05-23 08:25:42 · 7 answers · asked by Ray Eston Smith Jr 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The necessary question is "to be" considered when the clowns speak. The clowns (gravediggers) speak of the "crowner's quest". Please see
http://academia.wikia.com/wiki/Motifs_in_Hamlet#When_Your_Clowns_Speak
2007-05-23 09:57:56 · update #1
"To be or not to be" --- what?
"To be or not to be"...
"so like the king THAT was and IS THE QUESTION of these wars"
Could THAT be the "necessary question"?
2007-05-23 10:00:41 · update #2
To be or not to be yada yada yada...
2007-05-31 00:10:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the "necessary question" is the point of the play. Hamlet is telling the comic actors not to ad lib, to stick to the text, and to serve the main point of the play, not to butcher the text for a sake of an easy laugh.
2007-05-23 08:36:43 · answer #2 · answered by mistersato 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The question he refers to is whether or not the king was poisoned. He knows, through his father's ghost, that he was murdered by poison in the ear. The play is to illustrate in fiction how his father was murdered, that is the question of the play. Calling it a question is a figure of speech, you could say the premis of the play as well.
2007-05-23 08:34:27 · answer #3 · answered by jessejamesbaker 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To be, or not to be... THAT is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or keep watching Rosie O'Donnel on "The View"... bet you weren't expecting that (the Spanish Inquistion is coming too!) ;)
2007-05-23 08:30:22 · answer #4 · answered by Paul Hxyz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too be or not to be that is the question
2007-05-23 08:30:04 · answer #5 · answered by Sally 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be or not to be,that is the question.
2007-05-23 08:29:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be or not to be.
2007-05-23 08:27:41 · answer #7 · answered by wizjp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋