The famous ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech is delivered in which Shakespeare play?
The Ages of Man (play) The Ages of Man (play) The Ages of Man is a one-man show performed by John Gielgud featuring a collection of speeches in Shakespeare's plays. Based on an anthology edited by Oxford professor George Rylands in 1939 that organized the speeches to show the journey of life from birth to death, the show takes its title from Jaques' "Ages of Man" speech from "As You Like It" ("All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players..."). Like the book, the show was divided into three parts: Youth, Manhood and Old Age. Gielgud was inspired to do
The Ages of Man (play) a Shakespeare recital by his great-aunt, actress Ellen Terry, who performed her own recital titled "Shakespeare's Heroines." Gielgud first attempted such a recital during World War II, when he would perform a collection of speeches he called "Shakespeare in Peace and War", culminating in the "Once More Unto the Breach" speech from "Henry V". Gielgud gave the first experimental performance of "The Ages of Man" in a house in St. James Square in London. It premiered at the Freemason's Hall at the 1957 Edinburgh Festival to a sold-out house and an overwhelming success. Gielgud would go on to perform the