"All the world's a stage"
is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare's As You Like It, spoken by
the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII. The speech compares the world to a
stage and life to a play, and catalogues the seven stages of a man's life,
sometimes referred to as the seven ages of man:] infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, Pantalone and old age, facing imminent
death. It is one of
All the world’s a stage…(Poem & Glossary)
BBC Learning English
‘All the world’s a stage…’
“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms;
Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
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