As You Like It follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court, accompanied by her cousin Celia and Touchstone the court jester, to find safety and eventually love in the Forest of Arden. The play features one of Shakespeare's most famous and oft-quoted speeches, "All the world's a stage". Act 2, Scene 7-The part where Jacques recites “All the world’s a stage, And all men and women merely players…” is one of the most famous and loved parts in the play. How rightly Shakespeare portrays the seven parts of a person’s life-from infancy to the “second childhood” where a man is sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything! Each part represents an age which the man plays and life is like a scene where everyone enters and exists.

A book once, Christmas Carol has also been adapted as a play and recently a movie was released based on the book. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visitations of Jacob Marley and the Ghost of Christmas Past who takes him to his past where Scrooge was an innocent boy, The Ghost of Christmas Present who takes him to his Clerk’s house where Christmas is being celebrate even though the Clerk can’t afford much, and The Ghost of Yet to Come who shows him what will people say on his death if he never changes. The story is transformed into a nice play with happy ending that attempts to explain the real spirit of Christmas.

The play is a wittyhttp://intellitrest.com:2082/cpsess4150254624/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/sql.php?db=intellit_interest&token=a75aafed9c38fb2af696b81cf2ebddf1&table=jos_intellitrest_objects&pos=0 outlook on the Victorian upper class, exposing a world of shallow indifference to true love. Personally, I only got the chance to read Act I, Part I which was also very comical. The scene opens with Algernon having conversations about marriage with his butler Lance. Then enters Jack/Earnest who comes to propose to Algernon’s cousin Gwendolen. Jack/Earnest leads double life having fun in London and being serious in the countryside for Cecily. When Gwendolen and her mother Lady Bracknell arrive, they both start eyeing Earnest as a prospective suitor. Gwendolen accepts Earnest because she loves his name and Lady Bracknell isn’t happy because she learns that he was adopted after being discovered as a baby in a handbag at Victoria Station.

The most famous play of all times, Julius Caesar is undoubtedly one of the brilliant works of William Shakespeare. The part of the play that was most inspiring was Act 3, Scene 2 which covered Mark Antony’s speech. Nobody can forget the famous “Friends, Romans, Countrymen…” speech, his clever usage of words, the way he calls Brutus “an honorable man” and turns the whole mob against them! Mark Antony’s speech actually made me sit up and analyse his rhetorical questions, the amount of sarcasm he uses in each word to turn the mob against Brutus was amazing.

The play is an adaptation of a book written by Sister Helen Prejean who was a spiritual advisor for people who were sentenced to death. Later, she started speaking out against capital punishment and to create awareness about this she expanded the book into a play. The title comes from a phrase once traditional in American prisons, to designate a man condemned to death. The play that we were shown was modified a little, in which a father had to electrocute his own son, decide between right and wrong, battle out the wars between head and the heart. The emotions were immense, the son with no fear whatsoever and the father who trembled when he found out that the criminal was his own son and he had to electrocute him because that was his job. The play is very beautifully written and the father-son relationship is not confirmed until the end when a watch falls off the son’s hand and the father recognizes that it is his.