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SaltWire's Atlantic regional weather forecast for November 7, 2023 | SaltWireLONDON - A portrait of William Shakespeare and a copy of a speech from"A Midsummer Night's Dream" were sent to the edge of space as part of a short film series marking 400 years since the first volume of the playwright's works was published.
To mark the anniversary, filmmaker Jack Jewers made six short films addressing contemporary themes including space exploration, the impact of the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine using six of Shakespeare’s speeches and poems. "A tiny copy of the speech we used, which is 'The Lovers and Madmen' speech from 'Midsummer Night's Dream', inserted into the portrait," Jewers told Reuters."The Stranger's Case" features a speech Shakespeare contributed to an unperformed play alongside footage of refugees at sea.
"'The Stranger’s Case' ... feels so modern that whenever anybody hears this, they go ‘well, this could be today’."
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