This line is said by the character Jaques in Shakespeare's play As You Like It. The particular speech from which it comes is very famous, and has often been incorrectly anthologized as a poem called "The Seven Ages of Man". But it's not a poem, it's a speech from a play.
This is Jacques monologue from the Shakespearean play, As You Like It, Act 2, scene 7, 139-143:
[in toto]
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,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players;"
This was written as part of the play As You Like It by William Shakespeare.
Shakespear.
"All the world's a stage," is modern English.
He trying to say all the worlds a stage its on big place and its quite frighten.
all the worlds a stage has a variety of alliteration such as : shrunk shank quick in quarrel and satchel and shining
All The Worlds a Stage.
Shakespear.
Jacques
"All the world's a stage," is modern English.
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He trying to say all the worlds a stage its on big place and its quite frighten.
The short answer is Jaques, the melancholy friend of the elder Duke, in William Shakespeare's play 'As You Like It.'
all the worlds a stage has a variety of alliteration such as : shrunk shank quick in quarrel and satchel and shining
Yes they did a play on word's in the song Limelight <Moving Pictures 1981>. In Shakespeare's play As you like It he said "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players" In Limelight "All the worlds indeed a stage, and we are merely players.".
All The Worlds a Stage.
'All the world's a stage' is indeed a Shakespearean quotation, but what are you asking by saying 'because you could not'?
It's generally just treated as a quote. You could also call it a metaphor
All the world is a stage and all the people are actors and actresses. What we do in our life becomes the roles we play. The outcome of the play depends on the input of our performaces and how they interact with someone else.