The Seven Ages of Man is a series of paintings by Robert Smirke, derived from a monologue from William Shakespeare's "As You Like It", spoken as the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII. The phrase begins as "all the world's a stage". The stages referred are: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon and old age.
The phrase begins as "all the world's a play".
( z1 begin :ARG1 ( z2 phrase ) :ARG2 ( z3 play :domain ( z4 world :mod ( z5 all ) ) ) )