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All the world's a stage
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This article is about the Shakespeare monologue. For the live album by Rush, see All the World's a Stage (album). For the television episode, see All the World's a Stage (Ugly Betty).
"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. 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.
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