Orlando meets "Ganymede" to practise courting, pretending "he" is Rosalind. (Oi vey!) Rosalind has great fun debunking Orlando's highfalutin' notions of romance.
As Rosalind waits for a second "bout" with Orlando, Silvius delivers a letter from Phebe. Silvius thinks it's an insulting letter, but when "Ganymede" reads it aloud, it's a love letter. Silvius is crushed.
Oliver finds "Ganymede" and "Aliena" with an apology and explanation for Orlando's lateness: Orlando has saved his brother from a hungry lioness and been wounded in the process. When he shows the bloodstained handkerchief as proof, "Ganymede" faints.
Recovering quickly, "Ganymede" says that the faint was a pretense (a feint??) but neither Oliver nor Celia is inclined to believe the explanation.
Oliver confesses to Orlando that he has fallen in love with "Aliena" at first sight and she feels the same way about him. (There must be something in the air in this forest.) He is willing to marry Aliena and live as a simple shepherd, letting Orlando have their father's estate.
Rosalind, still in disguise as "Ganymede," proposes to bring matters to a conclusion, because if Oliver and Celia aren't married quickly, they won't wait for the priest. She proposes to bring Rosalind to Orlando, and settle the Phebe-Silvius-Ganymede triangle at the same time — tomorrow.
Next day "Ganymede" has everyone make a promise: Duke Senior to give his daughter to Orlando, Orlando to marry Rosalind, and Phebe to marry Silvius if she refuses Ganymede.
Touchstone, Audrey and Jaques join the party. Touchstone's fooling allows Ganymede and Aliena to change into Rosalind and Celia.
When Rosalind and Celia return, they're accompanied by Hymen, the God of Marriage.
When everyone realizes that Rosalind is Ganymede, the couples are rapidly sorted out and Hymen gives a blessing to the four couples.
This multiplicity of love scenes is interrupted by Oliver and Orlando's brother who brings news that Duke Frederick, who had come into the forest with an army to kill Duke Senior has met a religious man and been converted. He gives the realm back and Duke Senior can go home. (There is something in the air of that forest!!)
All are delighted by this, except Jaques, who predicts the futures of the couples and chooses to remain in Arden and live in a cave.
THE END
I do these cartoon versions of Shakespearean plays prior to taking my own students to see live theatre. The cartoons give them an idea of the plot of the play so they don't feel lost. After 10 minutes or so, the students catch on, enjoy the play, and my job of supervision becomes much easier.
Sorry I can't put the "mainstream" plays (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar et al) on the Web. They are copyright to J. Weston Walch, Publisher and are available in SHAKESPEARE MADE EASY: AN ILLUSTRATED APPROACH.
Some other sites you might like to visit:
Mr William Shakespeare and the Internet
The Dachshund Circus
Dachshund Delights Badger Burrow
Bard on the Beach
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival
This site was prepared with help from Bill Kempthorne, Colin Welch, and Dale Halcrow, the Principal, who tolerates my obsessions. All I do is the dachshund and Shakespeare parts. I hope it helps you and your students or children to enjoy the Bard as much as I do.