A Midsummer Night's Dream
Stories Podcast: A Bedtime Show for Kids of All Ages
Stories Podcast / Wondery
4.2 • 12.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is a classic, adapted for audio by Daniel Hinds. First written by William Shakespeare and adapted for children by E. Nesbit.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to Story's Podcast. I'm your host Amanda Weldon. |
| 0:06.0 | Today's story is called A Midsummer Night's Dream, a play originally written by William Shakespeare, |
| 0:13.0 | adapted for children by E. Nesbit, |
| 0:15.5 | and then adapted for audio by Daniel Hines. |
| 0:19.8 | We have Stories Podcast merch available at Stories Podcast. Dotcom slash Shop. We're also on Cameo for all of your personalized video message needs and |
| 0:28.4 | don't forget to follow us on Instagram at stories podcast. If you send us a |
| 0:32.4 | drawing of your favorite scene or character, |
| 0:34.6 | we'll share it on our feed. |
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| 0:41.0 | Thanks. |
| 0:41.6 | Enjoy the episode. |
| 0:44.0 | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 0:47.0 | Once upon a time, in ancient Greece, |
| 0:51.0 | there was a young couple in love. |
| 0:53.0 | Their names were Hermia and Lysander, |
| 0:56.0 | and they spent all their time together. |
| 0:59.0 | Unfortunately, Hermia's father wished her to marry another man named Demetrius. |
| 1:05.7 | Now in Athens where they lived, there was a terrible law that held that any girl who refused |
| 1:11.0 | to marry according to her father's wishes could be put in prison. |
| 1:16.2 | It is not like this anymore. |
| 1:19.3 | When Hermia refused to marry Demetrius, her father was so angry that he actually brought her before the Duke of Athens to ask that she be locked up unless she obeyed him. |
| 1:29.0 | The Duke told her she had four days to think about it. |
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