 | Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...176 Orson Welles on Shakespeare On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object. Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we...work. Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confined two mighty monarchies, Whose high up-rear'd and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 272 pages
...unraised spirits that hath dar'd On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object. Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we...place a million, And let us, ciphers to this great account, On your imaginary forces work. Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confin'd two... | |
 | Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 282 pages
..."the flat unraised spirits" whose imperfect actions render the imperial stage an "unworthy scaffold": O pardon: since a crooked figure may Attest in little...this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work. (Henry V, Prologue, 15-18) In what Robert Weimann has described as a contest for theatrical authority,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 212 pages
...shipping. 23 Piece out: augment. 10 On this unworthy scaffold, to bring forth So great an object. Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we...very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? 15 Oh, pardon: since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million, And let us, ciphers to... | |
 | David Hirson - Drama - 2001 - 148 pages
...unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we...very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?" (Wilha "hmm?"lothelefianda "Ivnm?" to the right, MAURICE lauglis and spreads his hands wide to the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden О confined two mighty monarchies, Whose high-upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 1958 - 336 pages
...unraised spirits that hath dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we...very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? (i. Chorus) Twice only throughout his work Shakespeare apologizes for the insufficiency of his art:... | |
 | Mark Morris, Lawrence Green - Drama - 2003 - 84 pages
...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...very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? His solution is to rely upon the imaginations of the audience: Think, when we talk of horses, that... | |
 | Graham Holderness - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 332 pages
...unraised spirits that have dar'd On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object. Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we...very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt! (Craik, Henry V, p. 120). At one level a mere technical apology for the limitations of the contemporary... | |
 | Amy E. Spaulding - Education - 2004 - 194 pages
...unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we...this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work ... Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make... | |
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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? 
