"""All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players,"" is from which Shakespeare play?"
Merely Players Merely Players Merely Players was a one-man stage show written and performed by Barry Morse. It examined the lives of a series of actors and others from Elizabethan times up to present day. The title is derived from lines by William Shakespeare in his play "As You Like It": "All the world's a stage,"<BR> "and all the men and women merely players:"<BR> "They have their exits and their entrances;"<BR> "and one man in his time plays many parts."<BR> The two-act drama included several vignettes from the life and career of "mere player" Barry Morse, features over a dozen characters (three
All the world's a stage long predated Shakespeare. Juvenal, the ancient Roman poet, wrote one of the earliest versions of this line in his “Satire 3”: “All of Greece is a stage, and every Greek’s an actor.” Richard Edwards' play "Damon and Pythias", written in the year Shakespeare was born, contains the lines, "Pythagoras said that this world was like a stage / Whereon many play their parts; the lookers-on, the sage". When it was founded in 1599 Shakespeare's own theatre, The Globe, may have used the motto ' (All the world plays the actor), the Latin text of which is derived from a 12th-century