Some of these significant events are the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the Pope 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. ... This plague took the lives of millions. ... In 1346 reports of a terrible pestilence in China, spreading through Mesopotamia and Asia Minor had reached Europe, but caused no concern until two years later. ... When one has had the one of the two other plagues the plague goes directly into the blood stream and then kil...

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Introduction In this comparative study I will examine the representation of the magical creatures in two adaptations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: the eponymous video registration of Benjamin Britten's opera performed at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1981, conducted by Bernard Haitink, produced by Peter Hall and designed by John Bury, and Michael Hoffman's film adaptation of Shakespeare's play of 1999. I have chosen these two productions because they belong to two different cultural domains. ... However, critics point out that the fairies in A Midsummer N...

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