Dreams, Sleep, and Shakespeare's Genres 2020 Edition Contributor(s): Fretz, Claude (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030135217 ISBN-13: 9783030135218 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Performing Arts | Theater - General |
Dewey: 809 |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.81 lbs) 268 pages |
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. |