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"All the World's a Stage" Quote Meaning
Performance and Gender in 'As You Like It'
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illustration of As You Like It being performed
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By Lee Jamieson
Updated April 04, 2019
The most famous speech in As You Like It is Jaques’ “All the world’s a stage”. But what does it really mean?
Our analysis below reveals what this phrase says about performance, change, and gender in As You Like It.
“All The World’s a Stage”
Jaques’ famous speech compares life with theater, are we just living to a script preordained by a higher order (perhaps God or the playwright himself).
He also muses on the ‘stages’ of a man’s life as in; when he is a boy, when he is a man and when he is old. This is a different interpretation of ‘stage’ (stages of life) but is also compared to scenes in a play.
This self-referential speech reflects the scenes and scenery changes in the play itself but also to Jaques’ preoccupation with the meaning of life. It is no coincidence that, at the end of the play, he goes off to join Duke Frederick in religious contemplation to further explore the subject.
The speech also draws attention to the way we act and present ourselves differently when we are with different people thus different audiences. This is also reflected in Rosalind’s disguising herself as Ganymede in order to be accepted in forest society.
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