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Dream in Shakespeare: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis

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Dream in Shakespeare: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis

Dream is a central image for Shakespeare, encompassing at once the terrors of the irrational and the creative powers of the imaginationÂ—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 Nightâ€™s Dream to Hamletâ€™s most famous soliloquy.
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Drawing on the works of Freud and other psychologists, but basing its argument on the language and dramatic structure of the plays themselves, Dream in Shakespeare presents a coherent and innovative reading of the plays and their developing concept of dream.
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Country USA
Manufacturer Yale University Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780300195439
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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