Dream in Shakespeare: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis
Pages: 248
|Published: 28 May 2013
Description
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.
