All the world’s a stage
all the world’s a stage
the beginning of a speech in the play as you like it, by william shakespeare. it is also called “the seven ages of man,” because it treats that many periods in a man’s life: his years as infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, judge, foolish old man, and finally “second childishness and mere oblivion.” the speech begins: “all the world’s a stage, / and all the men and women merely players&ellipsis4;”
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