Wednesday, May 30, 2018

All the world's a stage so true! stages of according to Shakespeare

 All the world's a stage so true! stages of according to Shakespeare
 All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

What does Bearded like the pard mean?
In William Shakespeare  
Answer by Bologna King
"We're actors; we're the opposite of people" - Tom Stoppard
A "pard" is an older form of our word "leopard". At some point someone added the Latin word for lion ("leo") to the front of "pard" and it stuck. The knowledge of exotic beasts in the Middle Ages and early Renaisssance was peculiar: although they had heard of the beasts, they didn't really know much about them, and focussed on one or two facts (which were usually wrong) for the purpose of teaching moral lessons. For example, they thought that bears were born as lumps of flesh which had to be licked into shape, literally, by their mothers. Shakespeare refers to this is his play Henry VI Part 3. They also thought that pelicans wounded their breasts so their young could live on the blood.

What did they know about leopards? They had beards and they ran very fast.



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