Dreams, Sleep, and Shakespeare's Genres 2020 Edition Contributor(s): Fretz, Claude (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030135187 ISBN-13: 9783030135188 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Performing Arts | Theater - General |
Dewey: 809 |
Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.07 lbs) 268 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - Modern |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |