KS2 / KS3 English - Welcome to Athens

This film is from the series A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare available on BBC Teach.

Puck - a woodland sprite - relates recent events in Athens: Theseus, the Duke, is preparing to marry Queen Hippolyta. Meanwhile Egeus wants his daughter, Hermia, to marry Demetrius. But Hermia only has eyes for her true love, Lysander.

Egeus takes Hermia to Theseus and he rules in her father’s favour: Hermia must marry Demetrius. So Hermia and Lysander make a plan to escape the city through the woods to be married beyond the reach of Athenian law.

The lovers reveal their plan to Hermia’s friend Helena, who is herself unhappily in love with Demetrius. Helena decides to tell Demetrius about it in the hope of winning his favour.

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