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All the World's a Stage

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All the World's a Stage	comment	All the World's a Stage is a 2009 Russian mystery novel by Boris Akunin.It is the 12th novel in the Erast Fandorin mystery series. The book finds Fandorin back in Moscow in 1911, now 55 years old, having a Hollywood Midlife Crisis. He is badgered into investigating what seems like a trivial case regarding a nervous, jittery actress from the Noah's Ark theatrical troupe. The case becomes a lot less trivial when someone tries to murder the actress via a snake hidden in a bouquet of flowers, and less trivial still when her male co-star in the troupe is also murdered. The actress, Eliza Altairsky-Lointaine, suspects her estranged and maniacally jealous second husband, Iskander.Fandorin is intrigued by the case but also motivated by more personal reasons. Eliza the actress bears an eerie resemblance to his late wife, also named Eliza, who was killed 35 years before (way back in Fandorin #1, The Winter Queen). Fandorin realizes that he is falling in love, and must struggle with his desire for an actress half his age while also struggling to stay focused on the case and catch the killer.The English translation of All the World's a Stage was released in 2017, six years after the previous translation, The Diamond Chariot (Fandorin #10). Fandorin #11, short story Jade Rosary Beads, was skipped.
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All the World's a Stage / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "Stern loved to repeat Shakespeare's phrase: 'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.'"
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All the World's a Stage / int_1f0c1d33	type	Couldn't Find a Pen
All the World's a Stage / int_1f0c1d33	comment	Couldn't Find a Pen: Cornet Limbach is found in a pool of blood, having written the letters "Li" before dying. Subverted when it turns out he didn't; the letters "Li" were a Red Herring left behind by the killer.
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All the World's a Stage / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
All the World's a Stage / int_234fa9ba	comment	May–December Romance: 56-year-old Fandorin with an actress half his age.
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All the World's a Stage / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
All the World's a Stage / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: This story set in the theatrical world borrows the famous quote from As You Like It.
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All the World's a Stage / int_311bcac6	type	Beard of Sorrow
All the World's a Stage / int_311bcac6	comment	Beard of Sorrow: Fandorin, usually the immaculately groomed dandy, has a little bit of a breakdown after Eliza breaks up with him. He goes two weeks without combing his hair, he grows a scraggly beard, and he develops circles under his eyes.
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All the World's a Stage / int_361a1d26	type	Anguished Declaration of Love
All the World's a Stage / int_361a1d26	comment	Anguished Declaration of Love: Fandorin and Eliza finally make these to each other in the last chapter, after a whole book of Cannot Spit It Out.
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All the World's a Stage / int_3f1aadeb	type	Strictly Formula
All the World's a Stage / int_3f1aadeb	comment	Strictly Formula: In-Universe. Director Stern admits that writing plays based on the same ten archetypes is the key to his success. He even has a permanent cast, each of whom exactly matches one of said archetypes (including himself).
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All the World's a Stage / int_4a875876	comment	Yellowface: In-Universe. Eliza plays a Geisha in Fandorin's play.
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All the World's a Stage / int_5028baf2	type	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?
All the World's a Stage / int_5028baf2	comment	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Shustrov asks Eliza to marry him, basically as a business transaction. When she asks if he loves her, the rather robotic Shustrov says "To be honest, I don't know what people mean when they talk about love." He then explains that he wants to marry her to make the movie company bigger.
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All the World's a Stage / int_509769e7	type	Numerological Motif
All the World's a Stage / int_509769e7	comment	Numerological Motif: The theatre troupe's book keeps getting updated with cryptic messages saying that there are so many "1s" until the benefit performance. Fandorin is stumped, until the end, when he realizes it's a reference to the moment where there will be eleven ones in the time and date: 11:11, 11-11-1911. That's when Nonarikin—Nonarikin being the "nine" in that date—will explode his bomb.
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All the World's a Stage / int_589661ad	type	Renaissance Man
All the World's a Stage / int_589661ad	comment	Renaissance Man: Always true of Fandorin but carried to an absurd extreme in this installment, where Fandorin reacts to turning fifty by learning a new language every year, learning to fly an airplane, learning how to juggle, building his own submarine...and later, in the course of his investigation, he writes a play.
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All the World's a Stage / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
All the World's a Stage / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: The central theme of the whole series, the decay and decline of Tsarist Russia, is returned to again. Fandorin regards some kind of revolution as inevitable, and later thinks of the Russian state as "half-blind and rather stupid."
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All the World's a Stage / int_738eef3a	type	Theatre is True Acting
All the World's a Stage / int_738eef3a	comment	Theatre is True Acting: Set in 1911, it decries the "cinematograph" as the death of acting, as it cheaply immortalizes an art that should be transient.
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All the World's a Stage / int_79b16b48	type	Japanese Ranguage
All the World's a Stage / int_79b16b48	comment	Japanese Ranguage: A Running Gag with Masa throughout the series, it's used a little differently in this installment. The other actors in the troupe make fun of Masa's accent and Fandorin gets irritated.
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All the World's a Stage / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
All the World's a Stage / int_7a12aabf	comment	New Media Are Evil: Fandorin thinks the "cinematograph" will render the theater obsolete.
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All the World's a Stage / int_7a2a34ef	type	Not With the Safety On, You Won't
All the World's a Stage / int_7a2a34ef	comment	Not With the Safety On, You Won't: Eliza tries to kill Genghis Khan with the pistol given her by Nonarikin, but fails, because she didn't know about the safety catch.
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All the World's a Stage / int_91bc41d3	type	Milestone Birthday Angst
All the World's a Stage / int_91bc41d3	comment	Milestone Birthday Angst: The opening recounts how Fandorin started to panic after his fiftieth birthday. He reacted in typical Fandorin fashion, by becoming even more awesome (learning a new language every year, learning tightrope walking, learning to fly an airplane, etc).
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All the World's a Stage / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
All the World's a Stage / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Subbotin, Fandorin's pupil from 20 years ago and The State Counsellor, is the investigating officer for Limbach's murder. Senka, the teenaged urchin from He Lover of Death appears towards the end of the novel. It turns out that he is Shustrov's business partner.
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All the World's a Stage / int_985795ab	type	Medium Blending
All the World's a Stage / int_985795ab	comment	Medium Blending: In-Universe, the theater troupe's staging of the play Poor Liza starts with a filmed prologue. Everybody at the theater is bowled over by this effect.
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All the World's a Stage / int_bf1edb7e	type	Comforting Comforter
All the World's a Stage / int_bf1edb7e	comment	Comforting Comforter: Fandorin, who has hit on the idea of writing a play as a means to Eliza's heart, falls asleep at his desk while composing. His loyal servant Masa puts a blanket over him.
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All the World's a Stage / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
All the World's a Stage / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: Fandorin's play, "Two Comets in a Starry Sky", which is actually included in its entirety as an appendix to the book.
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All the World's a Stage / int_ca6e3245	type	Picked Flowers Are Dead
All the World's a Stage / int_ca6e3245	comment	Picked Flowers Are Dead: With a heavy dose of symbolism. Shustrov gives Eliza a rose preserved in gold. A bit later, after he explains his plans to turn the theatrical troupe into a movie ensemble, Eliza objects passionately. She says that theater is alive and films are dead, just like the flower has been preserved but is still dead anyway.
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All the World's a Stage / int_cc107e3b	type	Introdump
All the World's a Stage / int_cc107e3b	comment	Intro Dump: Shustrov's first meeting with the actors of the Noah's Ark troupe serves to introduce most of the supporting characters to the reader.
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All the World's a Stage / int_e3109dae	type	Switching P.O.V.
All the World's a Stage / int_e3109dae	comment	Switching P.O.V.: Bounces back and forth between the POV of Erast Petrovich and Eliza.
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All the World's a Stage / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
All the World's a Stage / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: Fandorin motivates himself to learn German because he believes that war with Germany is inevitable. Fandorin believes that the wobbly Russian empire will inevitably topple now that Prime Minister Stolypin, the best chance for constructive reform, has just been assassinated. Shustrov, the patron of the Noah's Ark troupe, talks about how the days of individual theatrical impressarios are finished, and that in the future entertainment will be dominated by conglomerates.
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All the World's a Stage / int_f93c1fc1	type	Edgy Backwards Chair-Sitting
All the World's a Stage / int_f93c1fc1	comment	Edgy Backwards Chair-Sitting: When Fandorin believes he has made the breakthrough deduction and gets excited, he sits down in a chair like this. Subbotin, the police detective sent to help him, follows his example.
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All the World's a Stage / int_f96f8980	type	Love Makes You Crazy
All the World's a Stage / int_f96f8980	comment	Love Makes You Crazy: Nonarikin's unrequited love for Eliza drives him into madness.
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All the World's a Stage / int_fec2b522	type	Happy Ending
All the World's a Stage / int_fec2b522	comment	Happy Ending:
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