词汇 | all the world-s a stage |
词源 | all the world’s a stage. Shakespeare used this phrase in As You Like It (1598–1600): “All the world’s a stage, / And all the men and women merely players.” About 20 years before this, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur du Bartas (1544–90), wrote in Divine Weekes and Workes (1578): “The world’s a stage, where God’s omnipotence, / His justice, knowledge, love, and providence Do act the parts.” Other well-known phrases that the French poet used before Shakespeare, suggesting that the English bard was familiar with his work, include: night’s black mantle, for which Shakespeare has night . . . with thy black mantle (Romeo and Juliet, 1594); the foure corners of the world, which Shakespeare has as the three corners of the world (King John, 1596); these lovely lamps, these windows of the soul, which Shakespeare has as the windows of mine eyes (King Richard III, 1592); and in the jaws of death, which Shakespeare has as out of the jaws of death (Twelfth Night, 1598). |
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