In the second century AD the Sophist philosopher Artemidorus of Daldis (who makes two brief and enigmatic appearances in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar) drew together the wisdom of earlier centuries, much of it already collected in the great library of the Babylonian King Asurna at Ninevah. ... Similarly, a retrospective appeal in the British press for dreams connected with the tragedy at Aberfan, a coalmining town in Wales where an avalanche of coal waste buried 140 people alive, produced impressive results that led to the establishment in 1967 of both the British Premonitions Bureau and t...

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Not only has he created such characters with strong charisma, but his themes- love, betrayal, esteem, bravery and political tragedy are yet still very much alive today. ... It consisted collections of Shakespeare's comedies, histories and tragedies.The plays included Antony and Cleopatra,The two noble kinsmen, Macbeth and Julius Caesar. ...

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