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Dream in Shakespeare
Marjorie Garber
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Description for Dream in Shakespeare
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 278.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300195439
SKU
V9780300195439
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About Marjorie Garber
Marjorie Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, and chair of the committee on Dramatic Arts. She lives in Cambridge, MA.
Reviews for Dream in Shakespeare
“In 1974 Dream in Shakespeare marked the debut of a young scholar with a rare gift for recognizing not only what is most Shakespearean about Shakespeare but what is at stake for us when we set out to interpret his vision. As fresh and perceptive as it was forty years ago, Dream in Shakespeare is one of those few critical ... Read more