A Midsummer Night's Dream

Start-to-Finish: Blue The Start-to-Finish Blue collection is a high-interest, considerate reading series designed to promote independent reading for struggling readers aged 9 to 17 years but reading at a 4th-5th grade level. Each set consists of a paperback book, a computer CD ROM book, an audio book and a teacher's guide. NOTE: A portable USB DVD writer is available for loan if your computer system does not have a CD/DVD drive. In the week before his wedding, Theseus, the Duke of Athens is called upon to solve a problem. A man named Egeus is furious because his daughter, Hermia, refuses to marry Demetrius, the man whom Egeus has chosen for her. Instead Hermia wants to marry another man, Lysander, who is in love with her as well. Theseus decrees that, according to the laws of Athens, Hermia must either marry Demetrius, or she must die for disobeying her father's wishes, and gives her a week to make her choice. Pledging their undying love for one another, Hermia and Lysander flee Athens and run off to the woods to elope. Demetrius follows them, and Helena, a young woman who is in love with Demetrius, follows him. Also entering the forest that evening is a crew of comical Athenian workmen who are rehearsing a play for Duke Theseus' wedding day.