... , the influence of the fairies on the lives of humans is, according to this model, an allegory. However, according to Michael Taylor the fairies do not merely function in the play as an explanatory phenomenon for the human world and natural occurrences, but as characters equal in existence to the lovers. He elucidates this in the light of Titania's speech in act two, scene one ... , the fairies are ambivalent creatures: they can be seen as actual beings or as allegories. Whether or not the fairies are allegories or actual beings, either way, they influence the lives of the humans. In Macb...

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... crowning Charlemagne, the Enlightenment, the Italian Renaissance, and the Black Death, an extremely fierce plague which swept across Europe and some parts of Asia in the mid-fourteenth century. The Black Death is also known as the Bubonic Plague because of the buboes it gave to its victims. This plague took the lives of millions. ... in China, spreading through Mesopotamia and Asia Minor had reached Europe, but caused no concern until two years later. In January of 1348 the plague had reached Marseille in France and Tunis in Africa. By the end of the next year the plague had reached as f...

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