Overview: Argues that Shakespeare used ideas of dreams and sleep as part of his reconception of comedy, tragedy, tragicomedy, and romance.Examines the previously unexplored relationship between dreams, sleep, a.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-
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