Scene Summaries
Includes contrasts and links between scenes - how Shakespeare creates dramatic significance by their placement in the play.
- Created by: Alice Rigby
- Created on: 25-05-14 15:43
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- Scene Summaries
- Act 1
- Scene 1
- Orlando and Oliver fight
- Charles introduces the 'golden world'
- Oliver is established as a villain
- Scene 2
- Celia, Rosalind and Touchstone are introduced
- Loving relationship between the sisters
- CONTRAST
- Orlando and Oliver fight
- CONTRAST
- Loving relationship between the sisters
- Wrestling match - Orlando wins
- LINK
- Rosalind and Orlando meet for the first time and fall instantly in love
- LINK
- Rosalind and Orlando meet for the first time and fall instantly in love
- Celia, Rosalind and Touchstone are introduced
- Scene 3
- Celia and Rosalind are banished
- However, Celia is positive: 'To liberty, and not to banishment
- Celia and Rosalind are banished
- Scene 1
- Act 2
- Scene 1
- First Scene in Forest with Duke Senior
- CONTRAST
- First Scene in Forest with Duke Senior
- Scene 2
- Duke Frederick discovers the girls' escape
- Moves the plot along
- CONTRAST
- CONTRAST
- Adam gives Orlando his life savings and plans to flee with him to the Forest
- Relfects values of the old world
- Adam gives Orlando his life savings and plans to flee with him to the Forest
- Duke Frederick discovers the girls' escape
- Scene 3
- Adam gives Orlando his life savings and plans to flee with him to the Forest
- Relfects values of the old world
- Adam gives Orlando his life savings and plans to flee with him to the Forest
- Scene 4
- Rosalind, Celia and Touchstone arrive in the forest and meet Silvius and Corin for the first time
- Scene 5
- Back with Duke Senior, Jaques is introduced for the first time. He mocks Amiens' song
- Scene 6
- Adam collapses in Orlando's arms
- Orlando leaves to find food for him
- Adam collapses in Orlando's arms
- Scene 7
- Orlando interrupts Duke Senior's gathering aggressively, ordering food.
- Duke S diffuses tension and whilst Orlando leaves to get Adam, Jaques does Seven Ages of Man speech
- Orlando interrupts Duke Senior's gathering aggressively, ordering food.
- Scene 1
- Act 3
- Scene 1
- Duke Frederick seizes Oliver's lands and orders him to enter the Forest and get Oliver
- CONTRAST
- Orlando hangs his verses on the trees
- LINK
- Duke Frederick seizes Oliver's lands and orders him to enter the Forest and get Oliver
- CONTRAST
- Orlando hangs his verses on the trees
- LINK
- LINK
- Orlando hangs his verses on the trees
- CONTRAST
- Duke Frederick seizes Oliver's lands and orders him to enter the Forest and get Oliver
- LINK
- Orlando hangs his verses on the trees
- CONTRAST
- Duke Frederick seizes Oliver's lands and orders him to enter the Forest and get Oliver
- Scene 2
- Touchstone and Corin debate - country v. city
- Rosalind discovers Orlando's poems
- Celia reveals the poet's identity to Rosalind
- Touchstone mocks the poems
- Orlando and Jaques enter
- Rosalind discusses love and time with Orlando
- Scene 3
- Touchstone and Audrey are introduced
- CONTRAST
- Rosalind discusses love and time with Orlando
- CONTRAST
- They attempt to marry but Jaques persuades Touchstone to not marry her under a bush
- Touchstone and Audrey are introduced
- Scene 4
- Orlando is late for his love lesson
- Celia mocks Rosalind's distress
- Corin enters inviting the girls to watch Silvius as he attempts to seduce Phebe
- Orlando is late for his love lesson
- Scene 5
- Phebe mocks Silvius' romance
- Rosalind interjects and insults Phebe
- Phebe falls in love with Ganymede
- She propses to write a 'rude' letter back and asks Silvius to deliver it
- Phebe falls in love with Ganymede
- Scene 1
- Act 4
- Scene 1
- Like with Orlando, Jaques doesn't get along with Rosalind either
- Orlando and Rosalind have another love lesson
- Mock marriage
- Celia refuses to say the words
- This scene signals a break in the relationship between Rosalind and Celia
- Celia refuses to say the words
- Mock marriage
- Scene 2
- Duke Senior's party hunt and kill a deer
- Leads to a song about cuckoldry
- Duke Senior's party hunt and kill a deer
- Scene 3
- Silvius delivers Phebe's letter to Rosalind
- Phebe has deceived the foolish Silvius - the letter is a love letter
- Rosalind criticises Silvius
- Phebe has deceived the foolish Silvius - the letter is a love letter
- The newly transformed Oliver enters
- Celia and Oliver fall instantly in love
- With news of Orlando
- Rosalind faints and nearly loses her disguise
- Silvius delivers Phebe's letter to Rosalind
- Scene 1
- Act 5
- Scene 1
- Touchstone and Audrey encounter William
- Touchstone attempts to intimidate his rival William
- Touchstone wins
- Touchstone attempts to intimidate his rival William
- Touchstone and Audrey encounter William
- Scene 2
- Orlando and Rosalind meet
- Rosalind realises she needs to drop the disguise in order to keep her Orlando
- Silvius and Phebe enter
- Rosalind sets up for the final scene
- Silvius and Phebe enter
- Rosalind realises she needs to drop the disguise in order to keep her Orlando
- Orlando and Rosalind meet
- Scene 3
- Touchstone and Audrey are entertained by the pages who sing a song about 'seizing the day'
- Touchstone doesn't appreciate the song - cynic
- Touchstone and Audrey are entertained by the pages who sing a song about 'seizing the day'
- Scene 4
- All gather for the finalscene
- Touchstone entertains the group with a virtuoso display of his wit
- Rosalind and Celia shed their costumes
- They enter along with Hymen
- The couples are married
- Songs and dancing ensue
- Jaques de Boys enters and explains Duke Frederick's transformation
- Jaques leaves the party, explaining his desire to remain in the forest and lead a religious life
- Jaques de Boys enters and explains Duke Frederick's transformation
- Songs and dancing ensue
- The couples are married
- They enter along with Hymen
- Rosalind and Celia shed their costumes
- Touchstone entertains the group with a virtuoso display of his wit
- All gather for the finalscene
- Epilogue
- Unusual - a woman doing the Epilogue
- And also unusual- breaks 4th wall
- Recognises that it is a play
- She returns the audience to the real world
- Shakespeare breaks theatrical customs
- Recognises that it is a play
- And also unusual- breaks 4th wall
- Unusual - a woman doing the Epilogue
- Scene 1
- Act 1
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