., also called the Middle Ages, or Dark Ages by some. ... In January of 1348 the plague had reached Marseille in France and Tunis in Africa. ... The onset of plague is generally accompanied by a high fever, exhaustion, headache, chills, and the signature enlarged lymph nodes. ... The middle 14th century was not a good time for Europe . ... This book also said the lack of peasants that were needed and how high the wages went when a peasant wanted to work. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Eliot: "I said the king was an incredibly foolish old man, which God knows he was; and that if he'd been my father I would have run away from home at the age of eight instead of waiting until I was ten...I pointed out that King Lear's opening speech was the height of idiocy. ... The Lear described in many critical essays sounds less like Shakespeare's monarch than the middle-class recreations of Lear in the nineteenth-century fiction of writers like Balzac and Turgenev. ... In order to exercise command, he must project an aura of authority, and this need in turn dictates that h...

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• Grade Level: High School