介绍： Read by Benedict Cumberbatch

In William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the sad Jacques delivers these lines as a monologue in Act II, Scene vii.

The monologue is centered on a conceit comparing life to a play. Jacques borrows this conceit from Duke Senior, who remarks after learning of Orlando’s misfortune...

介绍： Read by Benedict Cumberbatch

In William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the sad Jacques delivers these lines as a monologue in Act II, Scene vii.

The monologue is centered on a conceit comparing life to a play. Jacques borrows this conceit from Duke Senior, who remarks after learning of Orlando’s misfortunes that

“This wide and universal theatre
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in”