Dream in Shakespeare
From Metaphor to Metamorphosis
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Drama History & Criticism, British
| Author: | Marjorie Garber | ISBN: | 9780300198829 |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press | Publication: | August 6, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Marjorie Garber |
| ISBN: | 9780300198829 |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Publication: | August 6, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Language: | English |
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Dream is a central image for Shakespeare, encompassing at once the terrors of the irrational and the creative powers of the imagination-one's deepest fears and highest aspirations. Used in the early plays as a verbal or structural device, dream becomes, in the tragedies and late romances, a transforming experience which leads the dreamer toward a moment of self-awareness. In this illuminating study, now reissued with a new preface by the author, Marjorie Garber skillfully charts the development of Shakespeare's use of dream from the opening lines of Richard III to the magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Hamlet’s most famous soliloquy.
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Dream is a central image for Shakespeare, encompassing at once the terrors of the irrational and the creative powers of the imagination-one's deepest fears and highest aspirations. Used in the early plays as a verbal or structural device, dream becomes, in the tragedies and late romances, a transforming experience which leads the dreamer toward a moment of self-awareness. In this illuminating study, now reissued with a new preface by the author, Marjorie Garber skillfully charts the development of Shakespeare's use of dream from the opening lines of Richard III to the magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Hamlet’s most famous soliloquy.
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