 | Simon Trussler, Clive Barker - 2003 - 98 pages
...and to establish a more intimate interrelation between performer and audience, he continued: 54 Oh for a muse of fire! That would ascend The brightest...to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene . . . Shakespeare . . . leading off in Henry the Fifth ... all right for him, but for me - well, princes... | |
 | Jeffrey Wainwright - 2004 - 248 pages
...William Shakespeare's (1564—1616) King Henry V yearns for reality to replace the stage's shadow-play: O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! This is 'a muse of fire' because fire, the lightest of the elements, is associated with poets whose... | |
 | Amy E. Spaulding - 2004 - 194 pages
...in our technology-drunk time. Guess what? Shakespeare "got it." Listen to the prologue of Henry V: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! . . . But pardon, and gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold... | |
 | Robert Cross - 2004 - 258 pages
...stage / Super Etendard jets to fly" (CP, I: 166). This is a parody of the opening lines of Henry V: "O for a muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest...act, / And monarchs to behold the swelling scene" (Prologue, 1-4). The satire also rests upon parallels in the plots of the two plays. The sophistry... | |
 | Rob Pope - 2005 - 328 pages
...opening) [The Chorus figure comes on and verbally 'sets the scene' for the play.] Enter Chorus as Prologue CHORUS: O for a muse of fire, that would ascend The...himself, Assume the port* of Mars, and at his heels, bearing Leashed in like hounds, should famine sword and fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles... | |
 | Gabriel Torres Chalk - 2005 - 288 pages
...Shakespeare en King Henry V, iniciamos nuestra investigación con una apelación a la imaginación: "O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest...act, / And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!" (1.1.1-4). Pero no es únicamente la musa inspiradora como fuente productora de la creación artística... | |
 | Robert A. Logan - 2007 - 276 pages
...demonstration of the high astounding terms needed to give epic grandeur to the serious scenes of 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 all,... | |
 | Masolino D'Amico - 2007 - 255 pages
...quod contemplamur repraesentans, veluti templum, aut mons... SANT'iGNAzio, Exercitia Spiritualia 0 for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...the warlike Harry, like himself , Assume the port of Mais, and at his heels, Leashed in like hounds, should Famine, Sword, and Fire, Crouch for employment.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2007 - 1288 pages
...England; afterwards France. PROLOGUE. Enter CHORUS. CHORUS. FOR a Muse of fire, that would ascend VX are Leasht-in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all,... | |
 | Timothy Rosendale - 2007 - 18 pages
...text into something that is real and powerful both despite and precisely because of its fictivity. O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that hath dar'd On this unworthy scaffold to bring... | |
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O, 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 ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd... 
