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NEW B.Ed. COLLEGE NELLIMOODU
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM – 695524
INNOVATIVE WORK SEMESTER – II
2013 – 2014
Dramatization of John Hay’s poem
The Enchanted Shirt
SELEEMEEKHA.X.L
ENGLISH
Candidate code: 165/13376019
Innovation is a new idea, device or process. Innovation
can be viewed as the application of better solutions that meet the
requirements, in articulated needs etc. this is accomplished through
more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas
that are readily available to society. In its broadest sense innovation is
the development and application of ideas that improve the way you do
things and what you achieve. It is not have totally new; it may be a
small but incremental improvement that results in a positive outcome.
Innovative work helps the teacher to teach something
very effectively. Through innovative work, teacher presents the lesson
very effectively before the students. Here I have made an attempt to
produce an innovative work which is to transform the poem The
Enchanted Shirt into a screen play, from the 8th standard course
book. I hope that it will more interesting and easy to understand by
the pupil.
So this work is very helpful and useful to the students to
understand thoroughly the ballad. Students got clear idea and they
didn’t feel any confusion in their mind. This innovative work create
interest and learn the poem easily and effectively.
A dramatization of John Hay's poem
The Enchanted Shirt
Seven Scenes
Characters:
King
Minister
Physician
Messengers
Spies
beggar
Scene One – The King’s Chamber
King : Shut all the windows and leave me alone, my minister.
Minister : Why, my lord?
King : I am sick.
Minister : Sick?
King: (angrily) Yes!
(The minister shuts the windows)
Minister : I shall bring the court physician, my lord.
King : Okay.
(The minister goes and returns with the physician)
Physician: What is wrong with thee, my lord?
King : Wrong with me? How dare you say something is wrong
with me! I am only sick.
Physician: Forgive me, your majesty. (He feels the king's pulse)
You are not sick, my lord.
King : Am I, then, a liar?
Physician: (Frightened) No, no, my lord.
King : I am sick. I am a king and I should know!
Physician: But, my lord, your cheeks are red, and your eyes are
clear and bright. Sickness cannot touch you, my lord.
King : Off with his head! (Enter two guards. They take him
away) Minister, get the best physicians in the kingdom.
Minister : I shall, your majesty.
Scene II. Enter two messengers beating drums. A crowd gathers.
1Mesenger: People, listen to what we have to say.
2Messenger: The king says he is sick.
1Messenger: We want the ablest physician to cure him.
2Messenger: They shall be paid well.
Scene III. The minister is alone.
Minister : What a useless king we have! He is not sick, but he
thinks he is sick. What will happen to the kingdom if
he does not rule it well? O fie, fie, fie!
(Enter two physicians)
1Physician : Sir, we are here to cure the king.
Minister : (sadly) Come this way.
Scene IV. The king's chamber. Enter minister and physicians.
1Physician : Lie down, my lord. Now gently breathe and relax. (The
physician thumps the king's chest and feels his heart
beat and pulse. He then looks puzzled) You are sound
as a nut.
King : Hang him!
(Enter guards. They lead the physician away. The other physician
becomes pale)
Minister : Now it is your turn to treat the king.
King : Physician, what have you to say? (The physician rubs
his nose) Am I sick or not?
2Physician : (scratches his head) You are, my lord.
Minister : What is the remedy?
2Physician : The king will be well if he sleeps one night in the shirt
of a happy man.
King : Here is your reward.
(Hands him a bag of gold coins)
2Physician : Thanks, my lord.
(Exit physician)
King : Minister, send our spies to get the shirt of a happy man.
Minister : I shall, my lord.
Scene V. Two persons are seated by the roadside. Enter spies.
1Spy : We have not found a single man who is happy.
2Spy : Unfortunately it is so. But let us try those two men.
(They approach them)
1Spy : Hello, you look happy.
1Man : Happy? O, no we are sad.
2Spy : (sadly) Why?
2Man : I buried my wife when she died.
1Spy : But why are you sad?
2Man : I should have burnt her up for all the trouble she gave
me!
2Spy : (to 1Man) Why are you sad?
1Man : I did not bury my wife.
1Spy : Why?
1Man : Because she is alive.
Scene VI. A beggar is found laughing, whistling and rolling on the
ground. Enter the spies.
1Spy : Look at the beggar. He seems to be happy.
2Spy : Let us approach him.
(They approach him)
1Spy : Heaven save you, friend. You seem to be happy today.
Beggar : O yes, fair sirs, an idle man has so much to do that he
never has time to be sad.
2Spy : Would you be kind enough to lend us your shirt
tonight?
Beggar : I gladly would, but I haven't a shirt to my back.
(He rolls in laughter)
Scene VII. The king's chamber.
King : So many weeks are gone, and yet our spies have not
been able to get the shirt of a happy man.
Minister : Yes, my lord. - Excuse me, lord, the people are
suffering since you are sick.
King : Open all the windows.
Minister : I shall, my lord.
(He opens all the windows)
King : How pleasant the breeze is!
Minister : Very pleasant, my lord.
King : I feel well. I must take a look at the kingdom.
(Exit king)
Minister : Now all will be well. The people shall be happy, and
the kingdom shall be prosperous. And, in the words of
Thiruvalluvar, the king who rules his people well shall
be deemed a God. May God bless us all?
(Curtain)
CONCLUSION
Innovative work creates interest among the students and it
also helps them to learn a lesson very interestingly and effectively.
Here I converted the ballad ‘The Enchanted Shirt’ in the form of
dramatization. It helps the students to learn the poem clearly. It helps to
arise new ideas among the students. So in teaching – learning process,
innovative work is important in language learning.