At the start of Act 3 Scene 2 Hamlet seems to be aware of the importance of the player's performance and instructs them not to over do the performance. He tells them not to be larger than life as this will cause the audience within the play and the Elizabethan to start laughing and this is important because they are the ones Hamlet is trying to get his point across to. "Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it makes the unskillful laugh, cannot make the judicious grieve, the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh...
Horatio's self-control and temper saying they are so well balanced. "A man that fortune's buffets and rewards hast ta'en with equal thanks; and blest are those whose blood and judgment are so well co-mingled that they are not a pipe for fortune's finger to found what stop she please." The audience within the play and the Elizabethan audience may not have picked up on the Hamlet's craftiness and cunningness. Whereas the modern audience who are blessed with the broader knowledge of the play will pick up on the shrewdness on Hamlet's part as the play progresses at the start.