 | Muriel Clara Bradbrook - 1989 - 238 sivua
...players: 'On your imaginary forces, work' and to 'Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts'. O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene. (Ii1-4) A deepening sense of the relations with the audience as well as the actors can be traced in... | |
 | Alden T. Vaughan, Virginia Mason Vaughan - 1991 - 328 sivua
...(1977) As the chorus proclaims in Henry V, Shakespeare was frustrated by the limits of his wooden O: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! . . . Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram Within this wooden O the very... | |
 | Christopher Collins - 1991 - 226 sivua
...first speech it characterizes its theme as actually beyond the bounds of Shakespearean dramaturgy: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! (l, ll. 1-4) The diegetic interventions of this Chorus in producing a kind of preBrechtian epic drama,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 264 sivua
...with Henry at the Treaty of Troyes. THE LIFE OF HENRY THE FIFTH Prologue Enter CHORUS CHORUS Ofora muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven...himself, Assume the port of Mars, and at his heels (Leashed in, like hounds) should famine, sword and fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles... | |
 | Kristin Linklater - 1992 - 236 sivua
...the first four lines of the speech as it is written, with the final words in the line highlighted: O, for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! These are not the most important words in the lines. "A Muse of fire," "the brightest heaven," "A kingdom... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 884 sivua
...ladies Officers, soldiers, citizens, messengers, and attendants PROLOGUE Flourish. Enter Chorus CHORUS O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...himself, Assume the port of Mars, and at his heels, Leashed in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire I .nratimt.i The action takes place in England... | |
 | Paul Nimmo - 1996 - 72 sivua
...battle in a theatre. So the actors have to pretend and so does the audience. [Prologue to Henry V\ O for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...himself, Assume the port of Mars, and at his heels (Leashed in, like hounds) should famine, sword and fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 sivua
...afterwards France. PROLOGUE. Enter CHORUS. CHORUS. /™\ FOR a Muse of fire, that would ascend V^X s@ 3 Leasht-in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all,... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - 1996 - 288 sivua
...and literature. 4. Christianity in literature. I. Title. PR3011.L45 2006 822.3'3-dc22 2006031654 O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Prologue, Henry V Table of Contents Acknowledgments 9 Introduction: A Christian Approach to Literary... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - 1885 - 530 sivua
...must act, and throw yourself upon the waters. Remember the noble chorus in your own favorite play: — '"A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs...the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mar It is only, you perceive, where the field is large — commensurate to the greatness of the actor... | |
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FOR a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene... 
