Episode Synopsis "All the world's a stage - Shakespeare."

All the world's a stage is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare's pastoral romantic comedy As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jacques 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 men.

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