| Peter J. Leithart - 1996 - 288 páginas
...Christianity 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 Shakespeare - 1998 - 356 páginas
...French noblemen at Agincourt The Life of Henry the Fifth Prologue Enter Chorus as Prologue CHORUS 0 for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...scene. Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, 5 Assume the port of Mars, and at his heels, The Life of Henry the Fifth] F ititle-page and running... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 páginas
...that thought. 10253 Henry IV, Part 2 Commit The oldest sins the newest kind of ways. 10254 Hen ry V hat g 10255 Henry V I dare not fight: but I will wink and hold out mine iron. 10256 Henry V Once more unto... | |
| Ian Wilson - 1999 - 564 páginas
...performed. As if a magician, in Henry v's opening lines, the Chorus/Shakespeare invokes unearthly powers: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars . . . Then, characteristically, he pleads his own and his theatre's unworthiness. With something of... | |
| Norman Walsh, Leonard Muellner - 1999 - 662 páginas
...a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! </literallayout> < /blockquote> O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! — William Shakespeare, Henry V For additional examples, see also Part. — A list of the titles of... | |
| John Astington - 1999 - 312 páginas
...at other royal houses, like Oatlands, about which the Works accounts are silent. 74 3 Royal Theatres 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 dared On this unworthy scaffold 10 bring... | |
| Robert Weimann - 2000 - 324 páginas
...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...himself. Assume the port of Mars, and at his heels (Leash'd in, like hounds) should famine, sword, and fire Crouch for employment. (1-8) To appropriate... | |
| Harvey C. Mansfield (Jr.) - 2000 - 362 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| Orson Welles - 2001 - 342 páginas
...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... | |
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