Players
All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players:They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts.
As You Like It—II. 7.
There be players, that I have seen play,— and heard others praise, and that highly,— not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, Pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature’s journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Hamlet—III. 2.