🌹ENGLISH SLST::The Ox-H.E.Bates::Bengali Translation with Word-notes and Explanations.🌹

 

 

 

1. Macbeth:

• Dramatist: William Shakespeare.

  Opening Speech: First Witch:
  When shall we three meet again
  In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

  Ending Speech: Malcolm:
  So, thanks to all at once and to each one, Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone.

  Macbeth’s Opening Speech:So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

  Macbeth’s Ending Speech: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
  Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

• Date of Composition: 1603-1610(most probably in 1606, April-July)

• Staged/Performed: 1606(August) at Humpton Court for king James-I and his brothe- in-law, king Christian of Denmark. At  the Globe Theatre in 1611.

• Date of Publication: 1623 (in the First Folio).

• Type: Tragedy.

• Theme: Good vs Evil, The dangers of ambition, The influences of supernatural forces.

• Acts and Scenes: 5 Acts, 29 Scenes(74639).

  👉Setting: 

  Act I

  Scene I
  ⇒ The supernatural scene / The witch scene.
  Setting: A deserted place in Scotland.

  Scene II
  ⇒ Macbeth’s signal victory / Bleeding captain scene.
  Setting: A camp near Forres.

  Scene III
  ⇒ Temptation scene
  Setting: A heath near Forres

  Scene IV
  ⇒ Duncan’s proposal to go to Macbeth’s castle.
  Setting: Forres, Duncan’s palace.

  Scene V
  ⇒ Lady Macbeth’s resolve to murder Duncan.
  Setting: Inverness, Macbeth’s castle.

  Scene VI

  ⇒ Duncan's entry into Macbeth's castle.
  Setting: Before Macbeth's castle.

  Scene VII
  ⇒ The temptation of Macbeth by the fourth witch, Lady Macbeth.
  Setting: Macbeth's castle.

  Act II

  Scene I
  ⇒ The Dagger Scene.
  Setting: Court of Macbeth's castle.

  Scene II
  ⇒ The murder of King Duncan.
  Setting: Court of Macbeth's castle.

  Scene III
  ⇒ The discovery of the murder and the Porter Scene.
  Setting: Court of Macbeth's castle.

  Scene IV

  ⇒ The King's funeral.
  Setting: Outside Macbeth's castle.

  Act III

  Scene I
  ⇒ Macbeth's conspiracy against Banquo.
  Setting: Forres. The palace.

  Scene II
  ⇒ Lady Macbeth's disillusionment.
  Setting: The palace.

  Scene III
  ⇒ Murder of Banquo.
  Setting: A park near the palace.

  Scene IV
  ⇒ Banquet scene.
  Setting: The same hall in the palace.

  Scene V

  ⇒ Hecate’s proposal to show the magic powers of her art to Macbeth.
  Setting: A heath.

  Scene VI
  ⇒ Forres. The palace. Macbeth’s defeat.
  Setting: Forres, The palace.

  Act IV

  Scene I
  ⇒ Macbeth’s meeting the witches for the second time.
  Setting: A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron.

  Scene II
  ⇒ The horrible massacre of Macduff.
  Setting: Macduff’s castle, Fife.

  Scene III
  ⇒ The enemies of Macbeth are gaining weight.

  Setting: England, before the King’s palace.

  Act V

  Scene I
  ➔ The sleep-walking of Lady Macbeth.
  ➔ Setting: Dunsinane, a room in the castle.

  Scene II
  ➔ The enemies are gaining ground.
  ➔Setting: The country near Dunsinane.

  Scene III
  ➔ Macbeth expressing world’s weariness.
  ➔Setting: Dunsinane, a room in the castle.

  Scene IV
  ➔ Macbeth's offensive tactics and his skillful leadership.
  ➔Setting: Country near Dunsinane Wood.

  Scene V
  ➔ Sad demise of Lady Macbeth.

   ➔Setting: Dunsinane, within the castle.

  Scene VI

  ➔ Preparation for the last fight
  ➔Setting: Dunsinane, before the castle

  Scene VII
  ➔ The utter overthrow of Macbeth.
  ➔Setting: Another part of the field

  Scene VIII
  ➔ The fighting between Macbeth and Macduff.
  ➔Setting: Another part of the field

  Scene IX
  ➔ The final death of Macbeth
  ➔Setting: Dunsinane, within the castle

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2. She Stoops to Conquer(The Mistakes of a Night):

• Dramatist: Oliver Goldsmith.

  Opening Speech:  I vow, Mr. Hardcastle, you are very particular.(Mrs.Hardcastle).

  Ending Speech: And I say so too. And, Mr. Marlow, if she makes........( Mr. Hardcastle). 

• Date of Composition: 1771.

• Staged/Performed: 15 March 1773 at Covent Garden Theatre, London(during the reign of King George III.) Managed by actor-manager David Garrick (who was initially hesitant)

• Date of Publication: 1773

• Type:Anti-sentimental comedy, comedy of manners, farce.

• Theme: Class distinction, mistaken identity, romance, social satire

• Acts and Scenes: 5 Acts. 

  👉Setting: 

  Act I
  ➤ Setting: Hardcastle home and local alehouse
  ➤ Plot: Marlow and Hastings mistake the Hardcastle house for an inn (due to Tony's prank).
  ➤ Highlights: Comic confusion begins; mistaken identities introduced.

  Act II
  ➤ Setting: Hardcastle house
  ➤ Plot: Marlow’s nervousness around Kate; contrast between his behaviour with "ladies" and "servants".
  ➤ Highlights: Kate decides to "stoop" to conquer.

  Act III
  ➤ Setting: Continued interactions at the Hardcastle house
  ➤ Plot: Kate appears as a barmaid; Marlow grows more confident.
  ➤ Highlights: Tony helps Constance resist Mrs. Hardcastle’s control.

  Act IV
  ➤ Setting: same
  ➤ Plot: More confusion; Marlow suspects something is wrong.
  ➤ Highlights: Kate’s double role continues; Hastings’ plans fail.

  Act V
  ➤ Setting: same
  ➤ Plot: Misunderstandings resolved; identities exposed.
  ➤ Ending: Two couples united—Marlow & Kate, Hastings & Constance.

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3. Arms and the Man:

• Dramatist: George Bernard Shaw

  Opening Speech: Raina! Raina! Why, where?(Catherine).

  Ending Speech: What a man! Is he a man!(Sergius) 

• Date of Composition: 1894

• Staged/Performed: 1894 at Avenue Theatre, London

• Date of Publication: 1898

• Type: Romantic Comedy / Anti-war satire

• Theme: Illusion vs reality, cowardice and bravery, romanticism vs realism

• Acts and Scenes: 3 Acts 

  👉Setting: 

  • Time: November 1885 (during the Serbo-Bulgarian war)

  • Place: Bulgaria

    • Petkoff’s house in a small Bulgarian town

    • Act I-A bedroom(late in November in the year 1885.) 

      Act II-a garden(6th March, 1886, a fine spring morning)

      Act III-a library(1886, after the lunch)

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4. Riders to the Sea:

• Dramatist: J.M. Synge

  Opening Speech: Where is she?(Nora)

  Ending Speech: Michael has a clean burial..........No man at all can be living forever, and we must be satisfied.(Maurya).  

• Date of Composition: 1902

• Staged/Performed: 1904 at Molesworth Hall, Dublin(during the reign of King Edward VII.)

• Date of Publication: 1903

• Type: Tragedy (One-act play)

• Theme: Fate, grief, human helplessness against the sea/nature

• Acts and Scenes: 1 Act

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5. Justice:

• Dramatist: John Galsworthy

  Opening Speech: And five's twelve, and three---fifteen, nineteen.....(Cokeson). 

  Ending Speech: No one'll touch him now! Never again! He's safe with gentle Jesus.(Cokeson) 

• Date of Composition: 1910

• Staged/Performed: 1910 at Duke of York’s Theatre, London(Winston Churchill)

• Date of Publication: 1910

• Type: Problem Play / Social Drama

• Theme: Legal injustice, prison reform, individual vs institution

• Acts and Scenes: 4 Acts 

  👉Setting: 

  Act I
  ➤ Setting: Cokeson's room at James How's office.

  ➤ Time:On a July morning.
  ➤ Plot: Falder is discovered to have forged a cheque and was arrested by the detective Mr. Wister.
  ➤ Highlights: Ruth pleads for mercy; law is set in motion

  Act II
  ➤ Setting: The courtroom

  ➤Time: on a foggy October afternoon.
  ➤ Plot: Falder is found guilty and sentenced for three years 
  ➤ Highlights: Debate on motive vs. legality

  Act III
  ➤ Setting: The prison

  ➤Time: 24th December evening.
  ➤ Plot: Falder’s mental and emotional breakdown
  ➤ Highlights: Inhuman prison conditions revealed

  Act IV
  ➤ Setting: Cokeson's room.

  ➤Time: Few minutes to ten of a March morning, two years later.
  ➤ Plot: Falder is released but broken; attempts to live honestly and finally committed suicide.
  ➤ Ending: Tragic suicide—justice system has failed him completely

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