 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...  The Living Age - Էջ 3561900Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 268 էջ
...Making of Henry V, National Film and Television Archive, British Film Institute, London, 8009740AA) and A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs...scene. Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, s Assume the port of Mars, and at his heels (Leashed in, like hounds) should famine, sword and fire... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - 2002 - 368 էջ
...this play — a theme of brilliance and flashing optimism, heroism and success — Shakespeare writes: Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire Crouch for employment. (Henry V, Prologue, i)... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 316 էջ
...opening chorus proclaims this elision of god, king and general in a blithely syncretic mixture: 'O . . . should the warlike Harry, like himself, / Assume the port of Mars, and at his heels, / Leashed in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire / Crouch for employment' (1.0.1-8). The chorus... | |
 | Stanley Wells, Sarah Stanton - 2002 - 342 էջ
...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... | |
 | Graham Holderness - 2002 - 220 էջ
...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,... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 212 էջ
...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... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - 2002 - 308 էջ
...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.... | |
 | Graham Holderness - 2002 - 220 էջ
...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,... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 302 էջ
...METROPOLIS: ILLEGITIMATE PERFORMANCES OF SHAKESPEARE IN EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY LONDON JANE MOODY 'A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, / And monarchs to behold the swelling scene.'1 Such was Shakespeare's description of the theatrical space in which he wished his plays to... | |
 | Simon Trussler, Clive Barker - 2003 - 98 էջ
...more intimate interrelation between performer and audience, he continued: 54 Oh for a muse of fire! That would ascend The brightest heaven of invention,...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... | |
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