Dream in Shakespeare: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis

by Marjorie Garber

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300195435
• ISBN13: 9780300195439
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.