...William Shakespeare's (1564—1616) King Henry V yearns for reality to replace the stage's shadow-play: O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! This is 'a muse of fire' because fire, the lightest of the elements, is associated with poets whose...

...stage / Super Etendard jets to fly" (CP, I: 166). This is a parody of the opening lines of Henry V: "O for a muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest...act, / And monarchs to behold the swelling scene" (Prologue, 1-4). The satire also rests upon parallels in the plots of the two plays. The sophistry...

...Shakespeare en King Henry V, iniciamos nuestra investigación con una apelación a la imaginación: "O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest...act, / And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!" (1.1.1-4). Pero no es únicamente la musa inspiradora como fuente productora de la creación artística...

...demonstration of the high astounding terms needed to give epic grandeur to the serious scenes of Henry V: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...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 all,...

...quod contemplamur repraesentans, veluti templum, aut mons... SANT'iGNAzio, Exercitia Spiritualia 0 for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...the warlike Harry, like himself , Assume the port of Mais, and at his heels, Leashed in like hounds, should Famine, Sword, and Fire, Crouch for employment....

...England; afterwards France. PROLOGUE. Enter CHORUS. CHORUS. FOR a Muse of fire, that would ascend VX are Leasht-in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all,...

...poem. I loved her high-pitch recitations of the opening of Henry V over blueberry pancakes and hash: "O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!" Elizabeth had just graduated from New York University and now was throwing herself into the hard work...

...text into something that is real and powerful both despite and precisely because of its fictivity. 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 dar'd On this unworthy scaffold to bring...

...carafe. As the fanfare music concludes, he rises dramatically and delivers the Prologue from Henry V: O for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...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 all,...