"From which Shakespeare play does the following line come, ""All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players""?"
"Before Folger Theatre productions began, the Elizabethan Theatre was used for concert performances and academic lectures. The theater, which seats around 260, has no pit. Painted on the ceiling is a well-known quote from ""As You Like It"": ""All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."" The first theatrical performance in the Elizabethan Theatre was a 1949 production of ""Julius Caesar"" by the Amherst Masquers. The Folger Theatre Group formed in 1970 when the Elizabethan Theatre became compliant with Washington, D.C. fire safety laws. Early productions included ""Dionysus Wants You!"", which adapted ""The Bacchae"" into"
"long predated Shakespeare. Juvenal, the ancient Roman poet, wrote one of the earliest versions of this line in his “Satire 3”: “All of Greece is a stage, and every Greek’s an actor.” Richard Edwards' play ""Damon and Pythias"", written in the year Shakespeare was born, contains the lines, ""Pythagoras said that this world was like a stage / Whereon many play their parts; the lookers-on, the sage"". When it was founded in 1599 Shakespeare's own theatre, The Globe, may have used the motto ' (All the world plays the actor), the Latin text of which is derived from a 12th-century"
"while the line ""all the world's indeed a stage, and we are merely players"", references the title of the band's first live album ""All the World's a Stage"" (1976), itself taken from William Shakespeare's comedy play ""As You Like It"". ""The Camera Eye"" is a two-part track with sections titled ""New York"" and ""London"". Peart wrote the lyrics after taking walks in both cities, recalling observations and the rhythms he felt during them. It remains the band's last song with a duration over 10 minutes, a frequent occurrence in their earlier albums. Its title refers to short pieces of the"
"playing … a pointless game with unending time of which they are the playthings.” This also could be a reference to one of the world’s most famous theatrical metaphors: “All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” In writing to George Devine, who directed the Old Vic production, Beckett suggests that “the inquirer (light) begins to emerge as no less a victim of his inquiry than they and as needing to be free, within narrow limits, literally to act the part, i.e. to vary only slightly his speeds and intensities.” But the role of the"
"for the audience's approval. The play is based on a tale (3.9) of Boccaccio's ""The Decameron"". Shakespeare may have read an English translation of the tale in William Painter's ""Palace of Pleasure"". The name of the play expresses the proverb ""All's well that ends well"", which means that problems do not matter so long as the outcome is good. There is no evidence that ""All's Well"" was popular in Shakespeare's own lifetime and it has remained one of his lesser-known plays ever since, in part due to its unorthodox mixture of fairy tale logic, gender role reversals and cynical realism."
"treatise. Ultimately the words derive from ' (because almost the whole world are actors) attributed to Petronius, a phrase which had wide circulation in England at the time. In his own earlier work, ""The Merchant of Venice"", Shakespeare also had one of his main characters, Antonio, comparing the world to a stage: In his work ""The Praise of Folly"", first printed in 1511, Renaissance humanist Erasmus asks, ""For what else is the life of man but a kind of play in which men in various costumes perform until the director motions them off the stage."" Likewise the division of human"
"a play"" in 1520. T. W. Craik suggests a date of 1508 while MacCracken offers sometime in the late 15th century. The World and the Child The World and the Child () is an anonymous English morality play. Its source is a late 14th-century or 15th-century poem ""The Mirror of the Periods of Man's Life"", from which the play borrows significantly while reducing the number of characters. It is thought to have influenced William Shakespeare's ""Henry IV, Part 1"". The earliest surviving edition (printed by Wynkyn de Worde) is dated 17 July 1522, although the play is believed to have"
"The World and the Child The World and the Child () is an anonymous English morality play. Its source is a late 14th-century or 15th-century poem ""The Mirror of the Periods of Man's Life"", from which the play borrows significantly while reducing the number of characters. It is thought to have influenced William Shakespeare's ""Henry IV, Part 1"". The earliest surviving edition (printed by Wynkyn de Worde) is dated 17 July 1522, although the play is believed to have been written earlier than that and to have circulated in manuscript form. A bookseller in Oxford records the sale of ""mundus"
"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."" -Act II, Scene VII, Shakespeare's ""As You Like It"" Attribution The Seven Ages of Man (painting series) The Seven Ages of Man is a series of paintings by Robert Smirke, derived from a monologue from William Shakespeare's ""As You Like It"", spoken as the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII. The phrase begins as ""all the world's a stage"". The stages referred are: infant, schoolboy, lover,"
"Many scholars interpret these lines as a metatheatrical reference to Shakespeare's own production, and by doing so comments on his own stage. Shakespeare critics such as Tracey Sedinger interpret this as Shakespeare's critique of the London stage, which, by the perpetuation of boy actors playing the part of the woman, serves to establish the superiority of the male spectator's sexuality. The male-male relationship, some critics have offered, between the male audience and the boy actor performing the female sexuality of the play would have been less threatening than had the part been played by a woman. It is in this"
"of marriage or wives but a focus on two men becoming ""second selves."" Cicero writes that the perfect male friendship is ""above all other things in human life."" Damon and Pythias (play) Damon and Pythias is the only surviving play by Richard Edwards. Written circa 1564 and first printed in 1571, the play chronicles the Greek friendship story of Damon and Pythias. It was originally performed by the Children of the Chapell for Queen Elizabeth, possibly during the Christmas season between 1564 and 1565. On September 10, 1996, an all-female cast gave a single performance at the Globe Theatre in"
"standing and being able to move to the place they find most attractive, make of this the experience of assisting to a representation, an unforgettable one. In this kind of spaces, the well known quote attributed to the English author “All the world’s a stage”, makes a lot of sense. Shakespeare thought his plays to be performed in these theaters, and that is why his texts are redefined when worked in this type of theatrical space. The Shakespeare Theater promotes union, and meeting the most varied audience to celebrate the holiday of the theater, a celebration that has been happening"
"off scene as a song usually given to a minor character was sung by Anne in front of the enraged Queen Katherine. Henry VIII (play) Henry VIII is a collaborative history play, written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, based on the life of King Henry VIII of England. An alternative title, All Is True, is recorded in contemporary documents, the title Henry VIII not appearing until the play's publication in the First Folio of 1623. Stylistic evidence indicates that individual scenes were written by either Shakespeare or his collaborator and successor, John Fletcher. It is also somewhat characteristic of"
"updated the setting to the 1930s but changed none of Shakespeare's dialogue. Shakespeare in performance Thousands (perhaps even millions) of performances of William Shakespeare's plays have been staged since the end of the 16th century. While Shakespeare was alive, many of his greatest plays were performed by the Lord Chamberlain's Men and King's Men acting companies at the Globe and Blackfriars Theatres. Among the actors of these original performances were Richard Burbage (who played the title role in the first performances of ""Hamlet"", ""Othello"", ""Richard III"" and ""King Lear""), Richard Cowley, and William Kempe. Shakespeare's plays continued to be staged"
"many of Shakespeare's most famous speeches (such as ""All the world's a stage"", ""too much of a good thing"" and ""A fool! A fool! I met a fool in the forest""). Jaques provides a sharp contrast to the other characters in the play, always observing and disputing the hardships of life in the country. Historically, critical response has varied, with some critics finding the play a work of great merit and some finding the work of lesser quality than other Shakespearean works. The play remains a favourite among audiences and has been adapted for radio, film, and musical theatre. The"
"of convention is continued when the epilogue is given in prose. Act II, Scene VII, features one of Shakespeare's most famous monologues, spoken by Jaques, which begins: <poem>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</poem> The arresting imagery and figures of speech in the monologue develop the central metaphor: a person's lifespan is a play in seven acts. These acts, or ""seven ages"", begin with ""the infant/Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms"" and work through six further vivid"
"Digges recording, ""Let but Falstaff come, Hal, Poins, the rest ... and you scarce shall have a room"". When the company found themselves in dispute with their landlord, they pulled The Theatre down and used the timbers to construct the Globe Theatre, the first playhouse built by actors for actors, on the south bank of the Thames at Southwark. The Globe opened in autumn 1599, with ""Julius Caesar"" one of the first plays staged. Most of Shakespeare's greatest post-1599 plays were written for the Globe, including ""Hamlet"", ""Othello,"" and ""King Lear"". After the Lord Chamberlain's Men were renamed the King's"
"poisoned, and drowned key characters. By the end of ""Hamlet"", Horatio is the only main figure left alive. A previous, satirical play of a similar nature named ""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern"" was written by W. S. Gilbert in 1874 and performed in 1891. The play concerns the misadventures and musings of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters from William Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"" who are childhood friends of the prince, focusing on their actions with the events of ""Hamlet"" as background. ""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"" is structured as the inverse of ""Hamlet""; the title characters are the leads, not supporting players, and"
"time of William Shakespeare, only men could become actors, and women's roles were generally played by men or boys. After the English Restoration of 1660, women began to appear on stage in England. In modern times, particularly in pantomime and some operas, women occasionally play the roles of boys or young men. After 1660 in England, when women first started to appear on stage, the terms ""actor"" or ""actress"" were initially used interchangeably for female performers, but later, influenced by the French , ""actress"" became the commonly used term for women in theater and film. The etymology is a simple"
"2005), provides two different versions of the play, each with respectable authority. The problem exists with at least four other Shakespearian plays (""Henry IV, part 1"", ""Hamlet"", ""Troilus and Cressida"", and ""Othello""). During Shakespeare's lifetime, many of his greatest plays were staged at the Globe Theatre and the Blackfriars Theatre. Shakespeare's fellow members of the Lord Chamberlain's Men acted in his plays. Among these actors were Richard Burbage (who played the title role in the first performances of many of Shakespeare's plays, including ""Hamlet"", ""Othello"", ""Richard III"" and ""King Lear""), Richard Cowley (who played Verges in ""Much Ado About Nothing""),"
"playhouse's motto was ""Totus mundus agit histrionem""—""all the Globe's a stage""—an echo of Jaques' famous line ""All the world's a stage"" (II.7). This evidence posits September 1598 and September 1599 as the time frame within which the play was likely written. In Act III, vi, Phebe refers to the famous line ""Whoever loved that loved not at first sight"" taken from Marlowe's ""Hero and Leander"", which was published in 1598. This line, however, dates from 1593 when Marlowe was killed, and the poem was likely circulated in unfinished form before being completed by George Chapman. It is suggested in Michael"
"women dressing as men (i.e., a boy actor acting a female character who dresses as a man) are common in Shakespeare, the reverse (i.e., a male adult actor dressing as a woman) is all but non-existent, leaving aside Antony's debated case. Critics' interpretations of boys portraying female characters ""Antony and Cleopatra"" also contains self-references to the crossdressing as it would have been performed historically on the London stage. For instance, in Act Five, Scene Two, Cleopatra exclaims, ""Antony/ Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see/ Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness/ I'th' posture of a whore"" (ll. 214–217)."
"Book of Plays The Book of Plays (full title in original spelling The Bocke of Plaies and Notes therof p formans for Common Pollicie) is a section of a manuscript by the London astrologer Simon Forman that records his descriptions of four plays he attended in 1610-11 and the morals he drew from them. It is now in the Bodleian Library catalogued as MS Ashmole 208. The document is noteworthy for being the only preserved eyewitness accounts of Shakespeare’s plays on the professional stage during his lifetime: ""Macbeth"" at the Globe Theatre on 20 April 1610; ""The Winter's Tale"" at"
"is our life? A game!"") a quote from Act 3 of the opera, became a proverb in Russian. ""What? Where? When?"", a trivia game and one of the most popular TV-shows in Russia and former Soviet countries, starts with a musical quotation from the opera, Herman singing the phrase ""Life is but a game."" The Queen of Spades (opera) The Queen of Spades, Op. 68 (, ""Pikovaya dama"", ) is an opera in 3 acts (7 scenes) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, based on a short story of the same name"
"Shakespeare may even have seen them himself. Elizabethan dramatist Thomas Dekker wrote in one of his plays published in ""The Gull's Horn-book"" (1609): It has been suggested that the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the playing company that Shakespeare worked for as an actor and playwright for most of his career, named their playing space the Globe Theatre, built in 1599, as a response to the growing enthusiasm for terrestrial and celestial globes stimulated by those of Molyneux. In ""Twelfth Night"" (1600–1601), Shakespeare alluded to the Wright–Molyneux Map when Maria says of Malvolio: ""He does smile his face into more lynes, than"
"What a piece of work is a man ""What a piece of work is man!"" is a phrase within a soliloquy by Prince Hamlet in William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Hamlet is reflecting, at first admiringly, and then despairingly, on the human condition. The soliloquy, spoken in the play by Prince Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Act II, Scene 2, follows in its entirety. Rather than appearing in blank verse, the typical mode of composition of Shakespeare's plays, the speech appears in straight prose: Hamlet is saying that although humans may appear to think and act ""nobly"""
"Henry VIII (play) Henry VIII is a collaborative history play, written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, based on the life of King Henry VIII of England. An alternative title, All Is True, is recorded in contemporary documents, the title Henry VIII not appearing until the play's publication in the First Folio of 1623. Stylistic evidence indicates that individual scenes were written by either Shakespeare or his collaborator and successor, John Fletcher. It is also somewhat characteristic of the late romances in its structure. It is noted for having more stage directions than any of Shakespeare's other plays. During a"
"lines written by Montaigne: However, rather than being a direct influence on Shakespeare, Montaigne may have merely been reacting to the same general atmosphere of the time, making the source of these lines one of context rather than direct influence. What a piece of work is a man ""What a piece of work is man!"" is a phrase within a soliloquy by Prince Hamlet in William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Hamlet is reflecting, at first admiringly, and then despairingly, on the human condition. The soliloquy, spoken in the play by Prince Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Act"
"during which Shakespeare was London's dominant playwright. The date of the first performance is unknown. The First Quarto, printed in 1597, says that ""it hath been often (and with great applause) plaid publiquely"", setting the first performance before that date. The Lord Chamberlain's Men were certainly the first to perform it. Besides their strong connections with Shakespeare, the Second Quarto actually names one of its actors, Will Kemp, instead of Peter, in a line in Act Five. Richard Burbage was probably the first Romeo, being the company's actor, and Master Robert Goffe (a boy) the first Juliet. The premiere is"
"so virulent that it is likely that the play was banned—officially or unofficially—and left forgotten by Heminges and Condell. The events and monarchs in the play would, along with the two history tetralogies and ""Henry VIII"", extend Shakespeare's chronicle to include all the monarchs from Edward III to Shakespeare's near-contemporary Henry VIII. Some scholars, notably Eric Sams, have argued that the play is ""entirely"" by Shakespeare, but today, scholarly opinion is divided, with many researchers asserting that the play is an early collaborative work, of which Shakespeare wrote only a few scenes. In 2009, Brian Vickers published the results of"
"The Whole World is a Stage ""The Whole World Is a Stage"" is a 1966 song recorded by American R&B music group the Fantastic Four for the Ric-Tic label. It was written by Albert ""Al"" Hamilton, Eugene Hamilton (under the pseudonym of Ronnie Savoy), and Ed Wingate and produced by Al Kent (a pseudonym for Al Hamilton) and Wingate. Group member ""Sweet"" James Epps led the recording and was backed by Ralph Pruitt, Joseph Pruitt, and Wallace ""Toby"" Childs. The groups third single, ""The Whole World Is a Stage,"" was their only big hit single, peaking at number 6 on"
"in China. In Renaissance England it was illegal for women to perform in theatres, so female roles in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporary playwrights were originally played by cross-dressing men or boys. (See also ""Stage Beauty"".) Therefore, the original productions of the above-mentioned Shakespeare plays actually involved double-cross-dressing: male actors playing female characters disguising themselves as males. Academic research into the contemporary attitudes towards the practise have yielded a variety of interpretations. Laura Levine argues that ""an all-male acting troupe was the natural and unremarkable product of a culture whose conception of gender was ""teleologically male""""; she also"
"All for Love (play) All for Love or, the World Well Lost, is a heroic drama by John Dryden written in 1677. Today, it is Dryden's best-known and most performed play. It is a tragedy written in blank verse and is an attempt on Dryden's part to reinvigorate serious drama. It is an acknowledged imitation of Shakespeare’s ""Antony and Cleopatra"", and focuses on the last hours of the lives of its hero and heroine. Dryden deals with the same subject as that of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Whereas Shakespeare ""diffused the action of his play over Italy, Greece, and Egypt,"""