Sentence:  O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable <WSD>dumb shows</WSD> and noise. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A performance during which the players do not speak; mime.