3. As You Like it : By William Shakespeare
The Jew Of Malta : By Christopher
Marlowe
4. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. William
Shakespeare born on 26 April 1564 and died on 23 April 1616 He is
widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the
world’s pre-eminent dramatist . His extant works, including
collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long
narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship.
His plays have been translated into every major living language and are
performed more often than those of any other playwright
5. AS YOU LIKE IT
It is a Five-act comedy by William Shakespeare, written and
performed about 1598–1600 and first published in the First
Folio of 1623. Shakespeare based the play on Rosalynde
(1590), a prose romance by Thomas Lodge his play has two
principal settings: the court that Frederick has usurped from
his brother, the rightful duke (known as Duke Senior), and
the Forest of Arden, where the Duke and his followers
(including the disgruntled Jaques) are living in exile .
6. Rosalind, the Duke’s daughter, who is still at court, falls in love
with Orlando, who has been denied by his older brother Oliver
the education and upbringing that should have been Orlando’s
right as a gentleman. To escape Oliver’s murderous hatred,
Orlando flees to the Forest of Arden with his faithful old servant
Adam. Soon Rosalind is banished too, merely for being the
daughter of the out-of-favour Duke Senior. She flees to Arden
accompanied by her cousin Celia and the jester Touchstone.
7. Disguised as a young man named Ganymede, Rosalind encounters
Orlando, lovesick for his Rosalind, and promises to cure him of his
lovesickness by pretending to be that very Rosalind, so that Orlando
will learn something of what women are really like Oliver appears in
the forest intending to kill Orlando, but, when Orlando saves his
brother from a hungry lioness and a snake, Oliver experiences deep
remorse He then falls in love with Celia. Revelation of the girls’ true
identities precipitates a group wedding ceremony
8. THEME OF THE POEM
Love is the central theme of As You Like It, like
other romantic comedies of Shakespeare.
Following the tradition of a romantic comedy,
As You Like It is a tale of love manifested in its
varied forms
9. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe was an English
playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era Marlowe is among
the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Based upon the “many
imitations” of his play Tamburlaine, modern scholars consider him to
have been the foremost dramatist in London in the years just before his
mysterious early death Marlowe was the first to achieve critical
reputation for his use of blank verse, which became the standard for the
era. His plays are distinguished by their overreaching protagonists
10. THE JEW OF MALTA
The Jew of Malta is a play by Christopher Marlowe, written in
1589 or 1590. The plot primarily revolves around a Maltese
Jewish merchant named Barabas. The original story combines
religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set against a backdrop of
the struggle for supremacy between Spain and the Ottoman
Empire in the Mediterranean that takes place on the island of
Malta. There has been extensive debate about the play’s
portrayal of Jews and how Elizabethan audiences would have
viewed it.
11. The play opens with the character Machiavel, a Senecan ghost based
on Niccolo Machiavelli, introducing “the tragedy of a Jew.” Machiavel
expresses the cynical view that power is amoral, saying “I count
religion but a childish toy And hold there is no sin but ignorance
Barabas begins the play in his counting-house. Stripped of all he has
for protesting the Governor of Malta’s seizure of the wealth of the
country’s whole Jewish population to pay off the warring Turks, he
develops a murderous streak by, with the help of his slave Ithamore
tricking the Governor’s son and his friend into fighting over the
affections of his daughter, Abigail .
12. When they both die in a duel, he becomes further incensed when Abigail,
horrified at what her father has done, runs away to become a Christian nun. In
retribution Barabas then goes on to poison her along with the whole of the
nunnery, strangles an old friar (Barnadine) who tries to make him repent for his
sins and then frames another friar (Jacomo) for the first friar’s murder After
Ithamore falls in love with a prostitute who conspires with her criminal friend
to blackmail and expose him (after Ithamore drunkenly tells them everything
his master has done), Barabas poisons all three of them. When he is caught, he
drinks “of poppy and cold mandrake juice” so that he will be left for dead, and
then plots with the enemy Turks to besiege the city.
13. When at last Barabas is nominated governor by his new allies, he
switches sides to the Christians once again. Having devised a trap
for the Turks’ galley slaves and soldiers in which they will all be
demolished by gunpowder, he then sets a trap for the Turkish
prince himself and his men, hoping to boil them alive in a hidden
cauldron. Just at the key moment, however, the former governor
double-crosses him and causes him to fall into his own trap. The
play ends with the Christian governor holding the Turkish prince
hostage until reparations are paid. Barabas curses them as he
burns.[4]
14. THEME OF THE POEM
The main themes of The Jew of Malta include
religious conflict, anti-Semitism, and revenge
