Uploaded November 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's a virtual movie of the great William Shakespeare reading "All the world's a stage"
"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:[1] infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, Pantalone and old age, facing imminent death. It is one of Shakespeare's most frequently quoted passages.
You Can See the lovely 78 rpm record playing that the soundtrack for this virtual movie came from here..
youtube.com/watch?v=L5LyPBnIFC4
The division of human life into a series of ages was a commonplace of art and literature, which Shakespeare would have expected his audiences to recognize. The number of ages varied: three and four being the most common among ancient writers such as Aristotle. The concept of seven ages derives from medieval philosophy, which constructed groups of seven, as in the seven deadly sins, for theological reasons. The seven ages model dates from the 12th century.[4] King Henry V had a tapestry illustrating the seven ages of man.[5]
According to T. W. Baldwin, Shakespeare's version of the concept of the ages man is based primarily upon Palingenius' book Zodiacus Vitae, a school text he would have studied at the Stratford Grammar School, which also enumerates stages of human life. He also takes elements from Ovid and other sources known to him but not.[6]
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
A;ll rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2015
Here's a virtual movie of the great William Shakespeare reading "All the world's a stage"
"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:[1] infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, Pantalone and old age, facing imminent death. It is one of Shakespeare's most frequently quoted passages.
You Can See the lovely 78 rpm record playing that the soundtrack for this virtual movie came from here..
youtube.com/watch?v=L5LyPBnIFC4
The division of human life into a series of ages was a commonplace of art and literature, which Shakespeare would have expected his audiences to recognize. The number of ages varied: three and four being the most common among ancient writers such as Aristotle. The concept of seven ages derives from medieval philosophy, which constructed groups of seven, as in the seven deadly sins, for theological reasons. The seven ages model dates from the 12th century.[4] King Henry V had a tapestry illustrating the seven ages of man.[5]
According to T. W. Baldwin, Shakespeare's version of the concept of the ages man is based primarily upon Palingenius' book Zodiacus Vitae, a school text he would have studied at the Stratford Grammar School, which also enumerates stages of human life. He also takes elements from Ovid and other sources known to him but not.[6]
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
A;ll rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2015
