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Six of these films are fun, simplified summaries of shakespeares most popular plays, while the seventh is a short animation of shakespeare. Part of a series of seven short animated shakespeare films aimed at 6 11 year olds who are learning english as a second language and available on the british councils learnenglish kids. A midsummer nights dream act 5, scene 1 translation. Shakespeare one of shakespeare s dark comedies, this play tells of lovers forbidden to marry and depicts mysterious happenings in sinister woods. Shakespearetold a midsummer nights dream tv episode 2005. In macbeth, the witches first appear at the opening of the first scene suggesting that they will play a significant role in the play. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of theseus, the duke of athens, to hippolyta, the former queen of the amazons.
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