ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -all the world’s a stage People have roles to play in life just as actors do in the theatre.

Detailed explanation-2: -"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.

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: -Shakespeare says that each human being performs seven parts in this small drama on the stage of the world.. This stage ends when the infant grows into a school child. The first stage is that of an infant when he is helpless in his mother’s arms. He merely pukes in the nurse’s arms.