Visitors are invited to explore a selection of rarely-displayed props, costumes and accessories from the RSC collection that tell the story of Shakespeare's Seven
Ages of Man speech from As You Like It.
reason: You map out Tomorrow Now according to Shakespeare's Seven
Ages of Man: the infant, the schoolboy, the lover, the soldier, the judge, the elderly man, and the senile one.
A morality that handles the
Ages of Man iconography, the play "provides an opportunity for inquiring into a late-medieval theatrical genre as well as the visual culture of the time." Appendices examine the play's verse structures, its dramatic doubling scheme, and its dialect; textual and critical notes and a glossary are also included.
Four
Ages of Man (1962) is an illustrated account of classical myths, designed for older children.
A poetry and song recital called the Seven
Ages of Man by company member Wendy Gouldstone will be held at the Central Hall, opposite the theatre, on Sunday.
Ronnie Barker has been coaxed out of retirement for one night only to join Ronnie Corbett and Stephen Fry in an update of the famous "three
ages of man" sketch.
Drawing on much recent work on Renaissance women - marriage customs and costumes, legislation on dowries, inheritance, and dress codes, medical views on women's sexuality and fertility, and much more - Goffen offers splendid (if non-Christian) interpretations of Titian's three probable marriage pictures - the Three
Ages of Man, the Sacred and Profane Love, and the Venus of Urbino.
I was happily impressed by both his Desir, set to Prokofiev waltzes, and his Four Seasons, taking the
Ages of Man as counterpoint to the calendar; however, at the risk of being a bit unfair, I must say that his Washington Square, a local premiere, would have gained much from Bourne's clarity of poetic storytelling.
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