 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...  Littell's Living Age - Page 891850Full view - About this book
 | George Wilson Knight - 1958 - 336 pages
...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? (i. Chorus) Twice only throughout his work Shakespeare apologizes for the insufficiency of his art:... | |
 | Graham Holderness - 2002 - 220 pages
...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 air at Agincourt? Olivier came to the play equipped with all the formidable technology for portraying reality developed... | |
 | Graham Holderness - 2002 - 220 pages
...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 air at Agincourt? Olivier came to the play equipped with all the formidable tech-nology for portraying reality developed... | |
 | Kathryn Stout - 2002 - 335 pages
...impossible to show an actual battlefield on a wooden stage. He then asks, "or may we cram, / Within this wooden O, the very casques, / That did affright the air at Agincourt?" (The "wooden O" refers to Shakespeare's Globe Theater, a round building constructed of wood. "Casques"... | |
 | Neil A. Downie - 2003 - 356 pages
...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 in little place a million; And let us, ciphers to this great account, On your imaginary forces work. Suppose within the girdle... | |
 | Ato Quayson - 2003 - 228 pages
...France^ Or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did afright the air at Agmcourt? O pardon. since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million And lei us ciphers to this great account On your imaginary forces work. Piece out our nnperfections... | |
 | Simon Trussler, Clive Barker - 2003 - 110 pages
...funny things with time and space. At the beginning of Henry V the Chorus asks: May we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? The answer is, of course, that no, we may not. Something rather different happens. Stanislavsky's 'magic... | |
 | Graham Holderness - 2003 - 332 pages
...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! (Craik, Henry V, p. 120). At one level a mere technical apology for the limitations of the contemporary... | |
 | Richmond Tyler Barbour - 2003 - 274 pages
...concentrations of the whole. The prologue to Henry V begs pardon for presuming to "cram / Within this wooden O the very casques / That did affright the air at Agincourt" (12-14), only to enlist spectators in the effort: "Suppose within the girdle of these walls / Are now... | |
 | Mark Morris, Lawrence Green - 2003 - 84 pages
...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 of the audience: Think, when we talk of horses, that... | |
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