All the world's a stage

As Jacques famously put it in Shakespeare’s As You Like It: 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 …2 This theatrical metaphor has become the dominant means of expressing the idea that human identity is constituted by the essentially social roles we play.

Saved 23 April 2015

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