...of its hearers. Similarly, as Rosaline says to Berowne in Love's Labor's Last, "A jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it" (5.2.857-59). If the success of a jest depends largely upon audience ratification, then an orator or...

...influence is begot ofthat loose grace Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools: A jest's prosperity wards: But all in vain; they had no heart to fight, And we, in them, no hope to win the sickly ears, Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dear groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue...

...the individual from the type . . . arose from the situation, not the words'. '1' 'A jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it' (5.2.848 50), Rosaline pointedly reminds Biron. She refers not only to the very diflerent context of...

...influence is begot of that loose grace Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools. A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. (V.ii.864, 867-72) "A twelvemonth?" Berowne answers, "Well, befall what will befall / I'll jest a twelvemonth...

...spoken in jest." — English proverb "Jesters do oft prove to be prophets." — "A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it." — "They jest at scars, that never felt a wound." — Shakespeare "If you be a jester, keep your wit...

...that an audience's listening necessarily complements the actor's oral art, that A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. . . (v,ii, 851-3) In the PhaeJrus, Plato also makes Socrates say 'anyone who leaves behind him a written...

...a Shakespearean quotation, this time from Love's Labour's Lost (5. 2. 851-53): A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it. never in the tongue Of him thai makes it... (Jokes 144 = Witz 162) Simply put, thls means we never laugh effectively at our own...

...that an audience's listening necessarily complements the actor's oral art, that A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it ... (v, ii, 85i-3) In the Phaedrus, Plato also makes Socrates say 'anyone who leaves behind him a written...

...when she sends him off to amuse the speechless sick so that he might learn that "a jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it" (5.2.861-63). Branagh's Berowne, a bit of a 19305 sport with a lock of hair dangling down over his...

...the status of the players or the texts they choose. As Rosaline says to Berowne, "A jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it" (Love's Labour's Lost 5.2.861-63). The proliferating jests of cuckoldry do not simply reproduce gender...