Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare

by Peter Brown (2)

Overview

Medieval and Renaissance poetry and drama are some of the best resources we have in determining the importance dreams had in pre-Freudian society. For the first time, leading scholars have collaborated to produce new essays on the representation and interpretation of medieval and Renaissance dreams. Their essays, which range from Chaucer to Shakespeare, are designed to develop innovative approaches possible only in a specially commissioned collection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198183631
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/29/1999
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	8.78(w) x 5.80(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

University of Kent

Table of Contents

Editor's prefaceNotes on ContributorsIntroduction, A. C. SpearingOn the Borders of Middle English Dream Visions, Peter BrownMedical and Moral Authority in the Late-Medieval Dream, Steven KrugerInterpreting Dreams: Reflections on Freud, Milton, and Chaucer, David AersBaring Bottom: Shakespeare and the Chaucerian Dream Vision, Kathryn LynchThe Interpretation of Dreams in the Renaissance, Peter HollandThe Candy-Colored Clown: Reading Early Modern Dreams, Kathleen McLuskieBibliographyIndex

Editorial Reviews

"There is real variety in the approaches taken towards the subject to go along with the disparate matter of interpretation; and, given the subject, the work as a whole is remarkably free of theoretical jargon while still being theoretically informed."-Renaissance Quarterly

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