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Seven ages of man

Order It: Jaques's "All the world's a stage"
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Order It: Jaques's "All the world's a stage"

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“All the world’s a stage,” says Jacques in a famous speech from As You Like It about life and the passage of time. Take this quiz to see if you can correctly order the lines that follow.

Up Close: A 'Seven Ages of Man' painting
Seven Ages of Man
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Up Close: A 'Seven Ages of Man' painting

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Take a closer look at a 19th-century oil painting in the Folger collection that depicts all seven ages of man from Jaques’s speech in Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.”

The seven ages of man, rendered movingly
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The seven ages of man, rendered movingly

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In my last post, I described this month’s crocodile mystery as more of a rhetorical device than a question to be answered: what does this box prompt us to imagine what might be? All images in this post can be…