All the World's a Stage

A literary topos

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British
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Author: Marlissa Gerken ISBN: 9783638058445
Publisher: GRIN Publishing Publication: June 5, 2008
Imprint: GRIN Publishing Language: English
Author: Marlissa Gerken
ISBN: 9783638058445
Publisher: GRIN Publishing
Publication: June 5, 2008
Imprint: GRIN Publishing
Language: English

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Saarland University (Anglistik), course: Introduction to literature, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 'All the world's a stage' is a phrase we usually associate with Shakespeare and his plays. Did Shakespeare coin this phrase, was it used by his contemporaries or do its origins in fact go back further? In how far was this concept of 'the world being a stage' taken up in post-Shakespearean times? This paper is an attempt to find out the actual origins of this phrase and point out how it was used throughout the centuries.

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Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Saarland University (Anglistik), course: Introduction to literature, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 'All the world's a stage' is a phrase we usually associate with Shakespeare and his plays. Did Shakespeare coin this phrase, was it used by his contemporaries or do its origins in fact go back further? In how far was this concept of 'the world being a stage' taken up in post-Shakespearean times? This paper is an attempt to find out the actual origins of this phrase and point out how it was used throughout the centuries.

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