 | David Hirson - 2001 - 372 pages
...over the Audience. MAURICE "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 . . . !" A look of dumbstruck terror crosses Maurice's face. He glances helplessly towards the wings.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...York — Richard II V.ii 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! Chorus — Henry V Li Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them be... | |
 | Graham Holderness - 2002 - 220 pages
...is limiting the freedom of reference from the events on the stage back to ordinary everyday reality. A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene. (Henry V, Prologue,3—4) This does not simply demand an acceptance of certain dramatic conventions,... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - 2002 - 308 pages
...context in which the actors function. The representational aspects of performance are reiterated in: A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! (1.Chorus.3-4)5 and the sense of role-playing is explicitly emphasised through a sequence of similes.... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 212 pages
...reality' (Wilson Knight). Macbeth's words at this critical moment echo the 'wooden O' passage in Henry V: A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene. 'Prologue', 'swelling', 'act' and 'the imperial theme' are all there. The Chorus in Henry Fis calling... | |
 | Steven T. Brown - 2001 - 256 pages
...are brought to the fore: 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 proclaims the chorus in the prologue to Henry V.** Such theatricalities of power were not merely the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 pages
...Enter CHORUS. CHORUS. FOR a Muse of fire, that would ascend V_X The brightest heaven of invention, — 2 Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels, Leasht-in like... | |
 | Stanley Wells, Stanley W. Wells, Sarah Stanton - 2002 - 342 pages
...job it was to read and select play scripts for Drury Lane, cleverly quoted the Prologue from Henry V ('A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, / And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!') in support of this de facto monopoly; Shakespeare, he declared, should be performed 'only in the noblest... | |
 | Hugh Grady - 2002 - 318 pages
...Shakespeare's audience: 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. (Prologue, 1-6) As I mentioned... | |
 | Graham Holderness - 2002 - 220 pages
...is limiting the freedom of reference from the events on the stage back to ordinary everyday reality. A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene. (Henry V, Prologue, 3-4) This does not simply demand an acceptance of certain dramatic conventions,... | |
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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... 
