Seven ages of man

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All the world’s a stage

As You Like It, I like it

learned and memorised

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by Scooj

  • I made a late New Year’s resolution, which was to learn a Shakespeare speech, and yesterday I mastered the ‘All the world’s a stage‘ speech from As you like it as spoken by Jaques. It is not a play I know, but the speech is very well known.

Not only is this a fun thing to do, it helps with a bit of brain training too. Next up is to re-learn Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’, which I first learned at school.

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11 thoughts on “Seven ages of man”

  1. I’m impressed. I remember my son revising for an English exam in his late teensnn- They’d studied Romeo and Juliet and were expected to use quotations of course in their answers. I asked him the night before to quote me a few…

    ‘Oh happy Dagger’ – those 3 words – were the extent of his repertoire!

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    1. Ha ha, that is very funny. When I was in my early twenties I learned the Queen Mab speech from Romeo and Juliet – I have since forgotten it, and it is on my list to re-learn.

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      2. I (unusually) enjoyed Shakespeare as a schoolboy and in my early twenties. I am enjoying reflecting and analysing his work more now that I am in the transition from the fifth to the sixth age. The Globe booked…

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  4. Oh, Bravo you!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

    In high school I took an all-Shakespeare class in my final year. We had to memorize one soliloquy and of course, I chose Ophelia’s mad speech from Hamlet.😂 “Here’s rosemary for remembrance …”

    I think I’ll revisit that. Thanks for the inspiration!

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