Seven Ages of Man: 'then a soldier, full of strange oaths' (Rachel Mulligan, 2015-17)

            Stained Glass Museum, Ely Cathedral, Ely, Cambridgeshire

Rachel Mulligan's wonderful and life-affirming sequence Seven Ages of Man (2015-17) in stained glass roundels, using William Shakespeare's seven ages from As You Like It to illustrate the life of her father, Jim Mulligan. These gorgeous depictions are full of intriguing and amusing little details, haunting moments from history for anyone who has shared in at least a part of Jim Mulligan's lifetime.

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. 

WIlliam Shakespeare, from As You Like It, 1599
   

Taken on: August 16, 2018

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