About the Poet:
Poet and dramatist, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) lived and worked
during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Shakespeare began writing for
the stage in the late 1580s. Shakespeare's earliest work as a dramatist was
history plays. After this, he wrote numerous plays and poems, among the better
known ones being comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It,
The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night, tragedies such as Hamlet, Othello,
Macbeth and King Lear, while his fourteen-line poems were collected in Sonnets
(printed in 1609).
All
The World's A Stage tells you that all the men and women are
mere characters in the drama, which is played on the stage (in
the world). 'They have their exits and their entrances'; this means
that all the people take birth and then die after a certain period of
time.
SUMMARY
As All
The World’s A Stage begins, you are dragged to a stage. It is
like you are the audience, and you are watching a drama on the stage, right in
front of your eyes.
All The World’s A Stage tells you that all the men and women
are mere characters in the drama, which is played on the stage (in the world).
‘They have their exits and their entrances’; this means that all the people
take birth and then die after a certain period of time.
When the man enters into the world, he has
seven different ages or phases to go through. When he goes through these ages,
he has to play different roles. These roles depict a man as a son, his
responsibilities as a brother, father, husband, a fighter for the nation, etc.
The man begins his act on the
stage as an infant; he pukes in the arms of his nurse and cries to be in the
comfort of his mother.
The second act starts right when he turns into a school going boy, who is unwilling to go to school and unwilling to take the responsibility of being a student.
The second act starts right when he turns into a school going boy, who is unwilling to go to school and unwilling to take the responsibility of being a student.
The third act then comes when
he turns into a lover; his lover is the only person he sees dancing in front of
his eyes. For him, there is absolutely no other place that can comfort him,
than the eyebrow of his lover.
The fourth act of All
The World’s A Stage portrays the man as a soldier or a fight
for the nation. His beard depicts all those strange oaths that he takes to
protect his country and all the men and women living in it. No doubt he
quarrels, but he also maintains his dignity to create and develop his reputation
in front of others around him. This is perhaps the toughest stage in his life.
Then comes the fifth act, where he turns into justice, the one who knows
what is good and what is right. At this stage, he is perhaps the best person to
approach to find out who is correct and who is wrong.
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