The line 'All the world's a stage' belongs to which Shakespeare work?

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The line 'All the world's a stage' belongs to which Shakespeare work?

This line is from Shakespeare’s As You Like It. In a turning-phrase moment spoken by the character Jaques, he uses the world-as-a-stage metaphor to describe the seven ages of man, with people entering and exiting life like actors playing different parts. This exact image—life as a stage with entrances and exits—takes place in As You Like It, not in Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, or Sonnet 18. The other works either tell different stories (the tragedies) or are poems, and they don’t contain this particular soliloquy.

This line is from Shakespeare’s As You Like It. In a turning-phrase moment spoken by the character Jaques, he uses the world-as-a-stage metaphor to describe the seven ages of man, with people entering and exiting life like actors playing different parts. This exact image—life as a stage with entrances and exits—takes place in As You Like It, not in Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, or Sonnet 18. The other works either tell different stories (the tragedies) or are poems, and they don’t contain this particular soliloquy.

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