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Dream in Shakespeare : from metaphor to metamorphosis / Marjorie Garber ; with a new prologue by the author.

Title
Dream in Shakespeare : from metaphor to metamorphosis / Marjorie Garber ; with a new prologue by the author.
Author
Garber, Marjorie B.
Publication
  • New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2013].
  • c2013.

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xviii, 226 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
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 towards 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. 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.
Subject
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Psychology
  • Dreams in literature
  • Metamorphosis in literature
  • Drama > Psychological aspects
Note
  • Originally published in 1974 by Yale University Press.
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Prologue: In a nutshell -- Borrowed robes: an introduction -- 1. Apparent prodigies (Dream and plot: Richard III ; Dream and structure: The taming of the shrew ; Dream and language: Romeo and Juliet ; Dream and interpretation: Julius Caesar) -- 2. Spirits of another sort: A midsummer night's dream -- 3. A dagger of the mind: dream and "conscience" in the tragedies -- 4. The truth of your own seeming: romance and the uses of dream -- Afterword.
ISBN
  • 9780300195439 (pbk.)
  • 0300195435 (pbk.)
OCLC
841672040
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library