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By William Shakespeare. (from As You Like It, spoken by Jaques) 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;
" All the world's a stage " is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare 's pastoral comedy As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII Line 139. 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 . Text
Summary. ‘ All the world’s a stage’ is a monologue of “the melancholy Jaques” from Act II Scene VII of the play As You Like It by William Shakespeare. The speaker, Jacques, begins “All the world’s a stage” by asserting that life is like a stage on which “men and women merely” play roles.
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“All The World’s A Stage” As An Idiom. The idiom “all the world’s a stage” is a metaphor that compares life to a play. It is often used to suggest that people are like actors, playing different roles in different situations. The phrase was first used by William Shakespeare in his play As You Like It, in which the character Jaques says:
All the world is a stage is a comparison between the stage and the world not the world and the stage. In life we dont see the truth of other people, while in stage we do.
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...
Literary Analysis of All the World’s a Stage. The idea behind this phrase is fortune and fate. Jacques deploys a famous theatrical metaphor of seven stages of human life in this speech. He compares the world to a play, or a stage, and all men and women are merely actors or players on this stage called the world.
