Dreams, Sleep, and Shakespeare’s Genres

Dreams, Sleep, and Shakespeare’s Genres
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9783030135195
ISBN-13 : 3030135195
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Book Synopsis Dreams, Sleep, and Shakespeare’s Genres by : Claude Fretz

Download or read book Dreams, Sleep, and Shakespeare’s Genres written by Claude Fretz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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