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...with a "world-historical" subject, where Shakespeare himself has the Chorus make the same point: Play O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...invention, — A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarch* to behold the swelling scene! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port...

...stirring confidence in the dramatic powers of "invention" to serve and inspire the play's opening: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...should famine, sword, and fire Crouch for employment. (1-8) To appropriate "A kingdom for a stage" with the help of imaginative "invention" seems a task...

...choral interludes, beginning with the prologue, which sounds like a Homeric invocation of the muse: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars. (Prol.1-6) Shakespeare repeatedly presents military greatness in Henry V in terms of precedents from...

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...nothing figured as zero which informs the conceit of the Prologue to Henry V. The opening peroration: 'O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest...act / And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!' (Prologue, 1—4) is followed by an apology for the 'flat unraised spirits' of the actors and 'unworthy...

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