 | Richard Kostelanetz, Robert Flemming - 1999 - 400 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Weimann - 2000 - 324 pages
...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... | |
 | Harvey C. Mansfield (Jr.) - 2000 - 362 pages
...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... | |
 | John J. Joughin - 2000 - 148 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 60 pages
...playwright and the actors. The spectators must supply in their minds what can't be provided on stage. O for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to hehold the swelling scene! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars; and... | |
 | Orson Welles - 2001 - 342 pages
...Elliott Ann Saks Margaret Curtis Rosemary Carver Soldiers, Servants ACT ONE Scene One Enter Chorus. CHORUS O for a muse of fire, that would ascend The...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 - 2001 - 212 pages
...often mixes singular and plural verbs and subjects. PROLOGUE London: the Globe Theatre. Enter Chorus Chorus O for a muse of fire, that would ascend The...to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene. 5 Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars, and at his heels (Leash'd in,... | |
 | David Hirson - 2001 - 148 pages
...crowd.* MA URICE appears before the curtain. An anticipatory hush settles over the Audience.) MAURICE. "O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ... !" (A look of dumbstruck terror crosses MAURICE'S face. He glances helplessly towards the wings.)... | |
 | David Hirson - 2001 - 372 pages
...crowd.* Maurice appears before the curtain. An anticipatory hush settles over the Audience. MAURICE "O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene . . . !" A look of dumbstruck terror crosses Maurice's face. He glances helplessly towards the wings.... | |
 | Hugh Grady - 2002 - 320 pages
...between the person of the King and the legend of him which has come down to Shakespeare's audience: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars. (Prologue, 1-6) As I mentioned previously, Linda Charnes in Notorious Identity defined that peculiar... | |
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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, Leashed... 
