| Gary Schmidgall - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 256 pages
...successful role. Some of his humor, like Armado's, was not intended, as he ruefully admits in Sonnet 110: "Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there, / And made myself a motley to the view." This is because, being so manifestly an enthusiastic participant in the social economy,... | |
| William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1992 - 220 pages
...Por nothing this wide Universe I call, Save thon my Rose, in it thou art my all. CX Alas 't is trne, I have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to the view, Gor'd mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.... | |
| Meredith Anne Skura - Drama - 1993 - 348 pages
...in the first quartet of sonnet 1 10, where the poet says he has "made myself a motley to the view": Alas 'tis true, I have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to the view. Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.... | |
| William Shakespeare - English poetry - 1994 - 212 pages
...sum of good; For nothing this wide universe I call, Save thou, my Rose; in it thou art my all. 110 Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there, And made myself a modey to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 196 pages
...all thy sum of good; For nothing this wide universe I call Save thou my Rose; in it thou art my all. Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.... | |
| R. B. Parker, Sheldon P. Zitner - English drama - 1996 - 340 pages
...What was his attitude to the business of being a playwright? Two of the sonnets, 110 with its lament, "I have gone here and there / And made myself a motley to the view" (1-2), and 111 with its complaint about depending on "public means which public manners breeds"(4),... | |
| Jonathan Bate - Drama - 1998 - 420 pages
...social stigma attached to the trade of acting: 'Thence comes it mat my name receives a brand' (111); 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there / And made myself a modey to the view' (110) - 'modey' is a technical term for the dress of the stage Fool. What is the... | |
| Ian Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 564 pages
...unperfect actor on the stage'. In Sonnet 1 10 freely he acknowledges his life as an actor with the words: Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gor'd mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear . . . So for Shakespeare to have been... | |
| John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - Literary recreations - 2000 - 244 pages
...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'), so occasionally he could associate music with the subversively importunate claims of the... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2001 - 778 pages
...creative spirit in the world acting in his own plays before a pitfull of uncomprehending base mechanicals: 'Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear.' The man who used that terrible phrase,... | |
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