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. ...

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THE LAND 1. Vietnam, first of all, is an oddly shaped country, stretching like a letter "S- along the coast of mainland Southeast Asia from the Chinese border to the gulf of Thailand. Vietnam measures over 1,000 miles from north to south and often less than 100 miles from east to west. Its we...

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In Act II, Scene II of Hamlet, while delivering a report to the king and queen, Polonius delivers the following: "This business is well ended. ... He absorbed the objective, fact-based writing style of the newspaper article and made it his own, applying the lessons from the Kansas City Star's style guide to all of his subsequent work. ...

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He seems to befuddle everyone who knew him, exactly in the mold of most Shakespearean heroes: There was Hamlet, Lear, Macbeth, and now there is Charles Foster Kane. ... And that's what makes this film a perfect character study and a perfectly crafted story. ...

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In some schools - for example, Tower Hamlets - most bilingual children will speak the same language as a mother tongue, whereas in others 40 different languages or more may be spoken. ... NALDIC state that in 2012 the local authority areas with the highest proportion of EAL learners were Tower Hamlets (74 percent) and Newham (71 percent). ...

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