Which Shakespearean play presents the idea that the world is a stage and people are actors?

• As You Like It by Shakespeare presents the idea that the world is a stage and people are actors.
- মূলত এই ধারণাটি এই নাটকের একটি বিখ্যাত উক্তির মাধ্যমে প্রকাশ পেয়েছে।
- উক্তিটি হচ্ছে - 
-  ''All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players'' 
- এটি এই নাটকের Act II Scene VII এর opening line এবং spoken by Jaques.

• As You Like It:
- 5 acts বিশিষ্ট এই comedy play টি ১৫৯৮-১৬০০ সালের মধ্যে লেখা।
- ১৬২৩ সালে comedy টি First Folio এর অন্তর্ভুক্ত হয়ে প্রকাশিত হয়।
- Shakespeare based the play on Rosalynde (1590), a prose romance by Thomas Lodge.
- The Forest of Arden নামক এক কাল্পনিক বনে এই নাটকের অধিকাংশ কাহিনী বর্ণিত যাতে আমরা Orlando এবং Rosalind এর প্রেম কাহিনী দেখতে পাই।

• Some other famous quotes from As You Like It -
- Sweet are the uses of adversity.
- The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
- I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.
- Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
- Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
- We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

• The major characters in this play are -
- Rosalind (Heroine)
- Celia (Cousin of Rosalind),
- Orlando (Male lead),
- Jaques,
- Oliver,
- Duke Senior,
- Duke Frederick,
- Touchstone,
- Audrey.

Source: Britannica and SparkNotes.