Dreams, sleep, and Shakespeare's Genres

by Fretz, Claude

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Title Statements

Full title :Dreams, sleep, and Shakespeare's Genres / Claude Fretz.

Summary

"This book explores how Shakespeare uses images of dreams and sleep to define his dramatic worlds. Surveying Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies, histories, and late plays, it argues that Shakespeare systematically exploits early modern physiological, religious, and political understandings of dreams and sleep in order to reshape conventions of dramatic genre, and to experiment with dream-inspired plots. The book discusses the significance of dreams and sleep in early modern culture, and explores the dramatic opportunities that this offered to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. It also offers new insights into how Shakespeare adapted earlier literary models of dreams and sleep - including those found in classical drama, in medieval dream visions, and in native English dramatic traditions. The book appeals to academics, students, teachers, and practitioners in the fields of literature, drama, and cultural history, as well as to general readers interested in Shakespeare's works and their cultural context."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:Cham, Switzerland
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (ix, 268 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783030135195, 3030135195
oclc:on1140787676
LC Classification:PR3069.D67
Dewey Decimal:822/.33

'Following darkness like a dream' : dreams, sleep, and dark comedy -- 'God's secret judgement'? : dreams in tragedy -- 'Great nature's second course' : sleep and sleeplessness in tragedy -- 'Such stuff as dreams are made on'? : Shakespeare's late genre.