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All the world's a stage: poetry and theatre

Creeping like snail: childhood, education, early friendship, sibling rivalries

Sighing like furnace: courtship and sexual desire

Full of strange oaths and bearded like the Pard: the coming-of-age of the male

Jealous in honour: love and friendship in crisis

Wise saws: political and social disillusionment, humankind's relationship to the divine, and philosophical scepticism

Modern instances: misogyny, jealousy, pessimism, and midlife crisis

The lean and slippered pantaloon: ageing fathers and their daughters

Last scene of all: retirement from the theatre