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Jun 2, 2020 · Synopsis: The Chorus wishes for a far greater stage, actors, and audience. He apologizes for the scanty resources that are available and urges the audience to use its imagination to make up for them. Enter ⌜Chorus as⌝ Prologue. ⌜CHORUS⌝. O, for a muse of fire that would ascend. The brightest heaven of invention!
Read Shakespeare's 'O for a muse of fire' quote from Henry V below, along with a modern English translation: Spoken by Chorus, Henry V, Prologue.
The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act. And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! The Chorus begins by calling for ‘a muse of fire’: that is, inspiration as bright and brilliant as the element of fire, which was regarded as the brightest of the four classical elements (the other elements being earth, air ...
Apr 16, 2024 · Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War not in any conventional way but through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets who came to describe it best, and indeed to symbolize the war’s tragic arc and lethal fury.
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Chorus. 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!
Apr 15, 2024 · As the novelist and editor Michael Korda writes in “Muse of Fire,” an erudite and often funny group biography of the Allied soldiers who turned their battlefield experiences into verse,...
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Muse of Fire is a science fiction novella by Dan Simmons. It is about a group of Shakespearean actors, the "Earth's Men", in the far future where humans are a minor conquered species, spread across the stars in subservient roles.
