The monologue you learn and watched from Henry V begins with the Refrain wishing for issues—“O for a muse of fireside,” and so forth. Clarify what this Refrain—who after all speaks on behalf of the play’s creator—is saying concerning the limitations of theatrical efficiency. Do Shakespeare’s concepts nonetheless maintain true after we’re speaking about filmed dramatic performances? And the way does the filmed model of it seen right here help or refute these concepts?
Video of monologue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5dI65LvbrE
Script:
Enter Refrain
Refrain
O for a Muse of fireside, that will ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to behave
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
Then ought to the warlike Harry, like himself,
Assume the port° of Mars° and at his heels, visage, bearing / god of Conflict
Leash’d in like hounds, ought to famine, sword and hearth
Crouch for employment. However pardon, and gentles all,
The flat unraised spirits which have dared
On this unworthy scaffold to convey forth
So nice an object: can this cockpit° maintain web site of cock-fights
The vasty fields of France? or could we cram
Inside this wood O the very casques° helmets
That did affright the air at Agincourt°? battlefield in France
O, pardon! since a crooked determine could
Attest in little place 1,000,000;
And allow us to, ciphers° to this nice accompt,° nothings / accounting, story
In your imaginary forces work.
Suppose throughout the girdle of those partitions
Are actually confined two mighty monarchies,
Whose excessive upreared and abutting fronts° foreheads
The perilous slim ocean elements asunder:
Piece out our imperfections along with your ideas;
Right into a thousand elements divide on man,
And make imaginary puissance°; energy
Assume after we discuss of horses, that you just see them
Printing their proud hoofs i’ the receiving earth;
For ’tis your ideas that now should deck° our kings, adorn
Carry them right here and there; leaping o’er instances,
Turning the accomplishment of a few years
Into an hour-glass: for the which provide,
Admit me Refrain to this historical past;
Who prologue-like your humble endurance pray,
Gently to listen to, kindly to guage, our play.
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