...gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth 1O' So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty...forces work. Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confined two mighty monarchies, 2O Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow...

...have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object. Can this cockpit hold The vast fields of France, or may we cram Within this wooden...forces work. Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confined two mighty monarchies. These monarchies, then, were mounted in a frame formed of young...

...like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirit that hath dar'd On this unworthy scaffold...forces work. Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confin'd two mighty monarchies, Whose high-upreared and abutting fronts The perilous, narrow...

...cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques -9 a ' That did affright the air at Agincourt ? O, pardon...forces work. Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confined two mighty monarchies, 20 Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow...

...symbolical fashion. Shakspere, in the famous Prologue to Henry V., laments the limitations of his theatre : "Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France?...this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work. . . ( Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make...

...frankly denied the possibility of verisimilitude on the stage. In the prologue to Henry V he asked: . . . Can this Cock-pit hold The vasty fields of France?...in little place a million, And let us, ciphers to the great accompt, On your imaginary forces work. The scale of Elizabethan plays made realistic scenery...

...should famine, sword and fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that hath dar'd On this unworthy scaffold to bring...forces work. Suppose within the girdle of these walls, Are now confin'd two mighty monarchies, Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow...

...Sixteenth Century Peter Womack Imaginary puissance But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that hath dar'd On this unworthy scaffold to bring...very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? ' The Chorus's embarrassment seems odd, even disingenuous. This is, after all, Shakespeare's ninth...

...visually, the last word in the line does not get mechanically emphasized: The flat unraised spirits that hath dar'd On this unworthy scaffold to bring...casques That did affright the air at Agincourt'.* What happens to you if you do not breathe after "object" and "France" and do breathe at the beginning...

...should famine, sword, and fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that hath dar'd On this unworthy scaffold to bring...forces work. Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confin'd two mighty monarchies, Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow...