The document provides summaries of several plays including As You Like It by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, and Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. It summarizes the key plot points and themes of each play in 1-2 paragraphs. The document also includes learning objectives that discuss how the plays relate to themes of tragedy, fate, and the endless nature of waiting.

1. Drashti Mehta
• Plays
• B.A.
• S.N.D.T Women’s University.
Mumbai. Smt. N. C. Gandhi
Mahila Arts and Commerce
college, Bhavnagar

2. Plays

3. As You Like It
• “As You Like It” is a Tragi-
comedy _ By William
Shakespeare
• Elements of Tragedy and
Comedy
• Presence of Nature
• Rosalind and Orlando,
Celia and Oliver, Phoebe
and Silvius, and Audrey
and Touchstone, Duke
Senior, Duke Frederick,
Duck Senior

4. • Sir Rowland De Bois has recently died.
• He passed his estate to his eldest son Oliver
• Oliver refused to give education and training to
Orlando his (brother)
• Oliver challenge Charles for wrestling
• Duke Frederick exiled Duke Senior
• Duke Senior fled to the forest of Ardenne in
voluntarily exile
• (…Continue)

5. • Duke Frederick allows Rosalind(Duke Senior’s
daughter) to remain in court, because of her
friendship with his own daughter Celia.
• On the day of wrestling Orlando and Charles
fights
• Rosalind falls in love with Orlando
• Orlando comes to know about Oliver’s plan
regarding his, from his faithful servant Adam
• Duke Frederick banishes Rosalind from the court
and Celia accompanies her in the forest. They
leaves with the Court Jester Touchstone.
• (…Continue)

6. • Rosalind pretends to be a man Ganymede,
along with her Celia dresses up as a common
shepherdess Aliena
• Frederick decides to raise an Army against his
own brother to destroy him
• Orlando, Duke Senior and Adam accompanies
each other
• Phoebe falls in love with Ganymade
• All character later comes out of their disguise
• (…Continue)

7. • The day of wedding arrives
• Rosalind and Orlando, Celia and Oliver,
Phoebe and Silvius, and Audrey and
Touchstone marries each other
• Thus this play ends with happy ending.
• Learning Objective:Thus, we can learn from
here that how Tragedy and comedy the part of
our life. How Black Comedy and Pastoral
comedy happens is presented here.

8. Romeo and
Juliet
• William Shakespeare’s play
Romeo and Juliet
• Star crossed Lover meet
their Tragic Doom

9. • Two families in Verona, Italy has caused much
disruption, They are from the Capulet and
Montague families
• Romeo and Juliet’s families are against their love
• Lovers are in love with each other but their
families are against them, wanted them to marry
with other persons
• Prince Escalus of Verona warns the two families
that if the feud does not stop, the punishment
will be death.
• (…Continue)

10. • Romeo, a Montague, enters the stage along with
his friend and cousin, Benvolio
• Romeo has recently been denied the love of
Rosaline
• At the Capulet feast, in disguises Romeo meets
Juliet, the daughter of Capulet
• They instantly, they fall in love
• They decides to marry the next afternoon
• Romeo seeks the help of Friar Laurence, who
agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet
• (…Continue)

11. • Later that afternoon, Tybalt, a nephew of Lady
Capulet, enters and start fight with Romeo
• Tybalt kills Mercutio a friend of Romeo and
Romeo in response, kills Tybalt, later all exit from
Verona
• Romeo and Friar enters, Romeo in Friar
Laurence's cell, tries to commit suicide
• Friar doesn’t allow him to commit suicide and
convinces him to go and see Juliet to say goodbye
to her
• (…Continue)

12. • Capulet enters and arranges for Juliet to marry
Paris in three days
• Juliet denies, They exit and Juliet enters in the
friar's cell, they exit and Juliet enters in the
friar's cell
• He gives her a potion that will make it appear
as though she is dead. She exits.
• She reenters the stage (now at home) and
agrees to marry Paris

13. • The next morning, Nurse enters and finds
Juliet in her bed, apparently dead
• The Capulets all enter with Paris and decide to
have a funeral
• Romeo, who is in Mantua, enters.
• His servant Balthasar enters and tells Romeo
that Juliet is dead.
• Balthasar exits
• Romeo doesn’t know much about the fake
death of Juliet

14. • Romeo kills him, drinks the poison he bought, and dies
• Just as Juliet wakes up from the potion the friar gave
her, the friar enters the tomb
• He hears noises and tries to persuade Juliet to leave
with him.
• She refuses, sees Romeo dead next to her, stabs herself
with Romeo's sword, and dies
• The Capulets, Montagues, and the Prince of Verona all
enter the tomb
• Friar Laurence explains the story, and the Capulets and
Montagues agree to end their family feud
• This is how this love story ends

15. • Learning Objective: We have several examples
of Heer- Ranja, Shahjahan- Mumtaaz, Saleem
and Anarkali, etc are best examples who meet
with some tragedy in love. Because of religion,
society, casts, family orthodox, lifestyle, status

16. Oedipus Rex- By Sophocles
• Oedipus the King also
known by
the Latin title Oedipus
Rex, is
an Athenian tragedy by
Sophocles
• Theme of Oedipus
Complex

17. • Thebes –Plague
• Oedipus comes to know about the prophesy
• Oedipus warns Creon to know about the
oracle, banishes him
• Jocasta and King Laius thinks of the the
prophesy
• Flashback

18. • Jocasta reveals that the child was thrown
• King Laius was killed by the robbers, where
three roads meets
• Oedipus thinks of him as the son of Merope
and Polybus the king of Corinth
• Odepus consults of an oracle of Appolo
• Every events happens according to the
prophecy
• He solves the riddle of Sphinx, became the
new king according to the rule

19. • According to the prophecy he will marry his
mother and killed his father
• After that Oedipus discovers that Jocasta
hanged herself
• He picks golden brooches from her hair and
blinds himself by pricking it in his own eyes
• He lives the life after getting blind
• So, as Oedipus wants to save his life by
stopping further damage, but same things
happen, and he cant win over the hard luck.

20. • Learning objective: No one can prevent the
further damage, which is about to happen, its
upon individual that if they believe in Luck,
then anything can happen.

21. Waiting For Godot
• Waiting for Godot
• An Absurd Play
• By Samuel Beckett
• Existentialism

22. • Six main characters
• Waiting for a character “Godot” never appears
on the screen
• Theme of Waiting
• Pozzo- Lucky
• Estragon- Vladimir
• Messenger Boy
• Godot
• Two Acts
• Unity of time, place and action

23. • Throughout the poem nothing happens
• Throughout the life people wait for many
ambition, goals, things, but life goes on
• Waiting is endless process

24. Sources:
• Wikipedia.com
• Spark Notes.com
• Goodreads.com
• Shamoop.com