FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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comedy
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tragedy
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tragicomedy
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Detailed explanation-1: -“Seven Ages of Man” is written in free verse and using the narrative style. The poem is rich in metaphors. They start appearing from the very first phrase where the world is compared to a stage and people to actors on it.
Detailed explanation-2: -The most famous speech in As You Like It is the Seven Ages of Man, which begins ‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players’ (Act 2, Scene 7). Michael Horden playing Jaques, the character in As You Like It who delivers the ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Seven Ages of Man is a series of paintings by Robert Smirke, derived from the famous monologue beginning all the world’s a stage from William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII. The stages referred are: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon and old age.
Detailed explanation-4: -seven periods into which a human life can be divided, i.e. those of the baby, the child, the lover, the soldier, the middle-aged person, the old person, and second childhood.