The Winter's Tale based on the play for the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House in London. In 2015, author Jeanette Winterson published the book "The Gap of Time", a modern adaptation of "The Winter's Tale". In 2016, author E. K. Johnston published the book "Exit, Pursued by a Bear", a modern adaption of "The Winter's Tale". On 1 May 2016, BBC Radio 3's "Drama on 3" broadcast a production directed by David Hunter, with Danny Sapani as Leontes, Eve Best as Hermione, Shaun Dooley as Polixenes, Karl Johnson as Camillo, Susan Jameson as Paulina, Paul Copley as the Shepherd and Faye
All the world's a stage based primarily upon Palingenius' book "Zodiacus Vitae", a school text he would have studied at the Stratford Grammar School, which also enumerates stages of human life. He also takes elements from Ovid and other sources known to him. All the world's a stage "All the world's a stage" is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare's "As You Like It", spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII Line 138. The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play and catalogues the seven stages of a man's life, sometimes referred to as