Expecting Rain

Having just listened to the “As you Like It” audio cd, I found a few things interesting as it relates to “Lily Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts”. First, the names of characters Jacque & Rosalind; Rosalind the heroine and how the whole story compounds around her, her disguises…her wit. To my mind, Rosemary is the straw that stirs “Lily Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts”.

And Jacque says this:
“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances...”

That's the essence of “Lily Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts”.. It’s all stagecraft, costumes, stories, roles & disgiuses...disguises & roles...motives. Acting. The possible storylines multiply off the charts (for me) once you factor disguises, certainly gender disguises.

Other LilyRoseJackofHearts random echoes I hear from “As You like It”:

Charles to Oliver:
“….to come in disguised against me to try a fall”

Adam to Orlando:
“I cannot go no further”

..and Jacque is missing in the final wedding “scene”

Fascinating observation. Makes me eager to revisit the play and the song.

"The path is ever windin'
The stars they never age
The mornin' light is blindin'
All the world's a stage"

- Can't Escape From You

Oscar Vogel in M&A also has that line, "The whole world's a stage."

Another possible source:
A story by Damon Runyon, "the Lily of St. Pierre" has main characters Lily and Jack of Hearts. (And the villain Louie the Lug.)

Another thought about the world's stage, the Globe...

Two doors down, the boys finally made it through the wall, via the exit: as I understand the Globe had two doors on the rear wall: an entrance and an exit.



In the darkness by the riverbed they waited on the ground...."Bankside."



Couldn't go further without Jack's direction.

In June of 1976 the Canadian band, Rush, recorded their concert at Massey Hall in Toronto and named the resulting double live album All The World's A Stage.

Oh yeah..the Candian power trio~I believe 'Limelight' was the tune.

I never really caught onto what all the hoopla was about although I do like Working Man.

All the world's indeed a stage and we are merely players, performers and portrayers.

I think Ian Anderson may have said something like that as well...

Actually, it was this Melinda:

Well, do you ever get the feeling that the story's
too damn real and in the present tense?
Or that everybody's on the stage, and it seems like
you're the only person sitting in the audience?

I prefer Jeff Tweedy asking "Are you under the impression this isn't your life?"

Wilco will love ya baby.

Precisely. Wilco rules. I'll take them over Shakespeare robbing Rush anyway. But I do loves me some Limelight.

I'd rather see Shake It Off than To Be Or Not To Be, but that's just me.

Great song by Jethro Tull. . . "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day"

And as you cross the circle line, the ice-wall creaks behind ---
you're a rabbit on the run.
And the silver splinters fly in the corner of your eye ---
shining in the setting sun.
Well, do you ever get the feeling that the story's
too damn real and in the present tense?
Or that everybody's on the stage, and it seems like
you're the only person sitting in the audience?

Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

Prospero

The Tempest

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
~Janis Joplin

Players only love you when they're playing

- William Shakespeare ... erm, no, sorry, my mistake - Stevie Nicks. Stevie Nicks.

"More relative than this—the play's the thing. Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King". - Prince Hamlet


Hmmm...

The conscience of the King:
http://www.famousfoto.com/movies/elvis- ... movies.php