12/9/2023 0 Comments Shakespeare first folio mark damon![]() ![]() In his own earlier work, The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare also had one of his main characters, Antonio, comparing the world to a stage: Ultimately the words derive from quod fere totus mundus exercet histrionem (because almost the whole world are actors) attributed to Petronius, a phrase which had wide circulation in England at the time. When it was founded in 1599 Shakespeare's own theatre, The Globe, may have used the motto Totus mundus agit histrionem (All the world plays the actor), the Latin text of which is derived from a 12th-century treatise. 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". The comparison of the world to a stage and people to actors long predated Shakespeare. Origins The Seven Ages of Man by William Mulready, 1838, illustrating the speech World as a stage Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Turning again toward childish treble, pipesĪnd whistles in his sound. His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wideįor his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, ![]() With spectacles on nose and pouch on side With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,Īnd so he plays his part. In fair round belly with good capon lined, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,Įven in the cannon's mouth. Then a soldier,įull of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchelĪnd shining morning face, creeping like snail They have their exits and their entrances,Īnd one man in his time plays many parts, And all the men and women merely Players ![]()
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