...theatre. A playwright might well experience guilt: had not Shakespeare, in Sonnet 1n, complained that 'almost thence my nature is subdued / To what it works in, like the dyer's hand'? During the action of The Tempest, there are many transformations, some of which are ordained...

...harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. 5 Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And...my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renewed, Whilst like a willing patient I will drink 10 Potions...

...of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. (1-7) 8 See, for example, Nancy Lindheim, 'The Shakespearean...

...(3.4.27-8). t06 breach opening, gap. The word's sound anticipates 'breeched' (t09). t08 Steeped Dyed. See 'Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, /...nature is subdued / To what it works in, like the dyer's hand' (Sonnet ttt.5-7). t08 colours of their trade identifying marks of their occupation. t09...

...harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand class to which he belongs has a strong bias in one direction, or if he has not imagination...

...of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,...my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renewed, Whilst like a willing patient I will drink Potions...

...is to be eluded That [she] did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued By what it works in, like the dyer's hand. (3-7) Inside the Sonnets these details are opaque. They...

...reproach in his own belying his words. Then he drew his hand quite away from hers, and i subdued in] "And almost thence my nature is subdued / To what it works in, like the dyer's hand" (Shakespeare: Sonnet in). "I knew you would be angry!" she said with an air of no emotion...

...with genial hedonism; but, just as he could sometimes express disgust at his own chosen profession ('And almost thence my nature is subdued | To what it works in, like the dyer's hand'; 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there | And made myself a motley to the view'),...

...strangely. The public stage even now colours him like a dye: 'my name receives a brand', he declares, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then. One scandal burns, whether or not he refers to the name 'Greene' in 'o'er-green'...