 On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object; can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?  The Living Age - Էջ 3561900Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Graham Holderness - 2002 - 220 էջ
...constitute the play's ostensible subject:14 But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that hath dar'd On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vastly fields of France? Or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the... | |
 | John O'Connor - 2001 - 102 էջ
...Suddenly a voice echoes round the theatre. It is AUGUSTINE PHILLIPS, and he is on one of the upper levels. Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques 20 That did affright the air at Agincourt? I like 'wooden O', Gus. Where's that... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 276 էջ
...'spirits' in the Prologue to Henry V: But pardon, gentles all. The flat unraised spirits that hath dar'd On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object. This is normally glossed as 'The author and the company', 'spirits' being taken to stand for 'people',... | |
 | Graham Holderness - 2003 - 332 էջ
...between presence and absence, representation and presentation. Pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that have dar'd On this unworthy scaffold...fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt! (Craik, Henry V, p. 120). At one level a... | |
 | Steven Archer, Cynthia Gendrich, Stephen M. Archer, Woodrow Hood - 2003 - 314 էջ
...limitations in the prologue to Henry V: But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that hath dar'd On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So...cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram FIGURE 5.6 The chariot race from a stage version of Ben Hur. Treadmills and a background that unrolled... | |
 | Mark Morris, Lawrence Green - 2003 - 84 էջ
...convincingly on stage. The opening Chorus in Henry V sums up the problem in terms of basic space and numbers: Can this cock-pit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? His solution is to rely upon the imaginations... | |
 | Neil A. Downie - 2003 - 356 էջ
...of invention; A kingdom for a stage, princes 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 casques That did afright the air at Agincourt? O pardon! since a crooked figure may Attest... | |
 | Amy E. Spaulding - 2004 - 194 էջ
...behold the swelling scene! . . . But pardon, and gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great...fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? O, pardon! since a crooked figure may Attest... | |
 | Kathy Elgin - 2005 - 40 էջ
...in 1616 shows the Globe and Swan theatres on the south bank, with St Paul's Cathedral opposite. ... Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram Within this wooden 0 the very casques That did affright the air atAgincourt? HENRY V, ACT I, PROLOGUE cockpit: the theatre,... | |
 | James R. Keller, Leslie Stratyner - 2014 - 208 էջ
...title itself seems to draw on a comparably self-reflexive moment in Henry V, when the Chorus asks, "Can this cockpit hold / The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram / Within this wooden O the very casques / That did affright the air at Agincourt?" (Prologue, 11-14). This "wooden O" of... | |
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