Shakespeare Quote All The World S A Stage

All the world’s a stage. 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.

And one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

(from as you like it, spoken by jaques) all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players;

“all the world’s a stage” from as you like it by william shakespeare He also muses on the ‘stages’ of a man’s life as in; They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. “all the world’s a stage” jaques’ famous speech compares life with theater, are we just living to a script preordained by a higher order (perhaps god or the playwright himself).