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Dreams, Sleep, and Shakespeare's Genres

Dreams, Sleep, and Shakespeare's Genres

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Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies

Literary CriticismGeneral Drama

ISBN10: 3030135217
ISBN13: 9783030135218
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 26 2021
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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