Article: Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare.(Review)

Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare. Ed. by PETER BROWN. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. x+194 pp. 35 [pounds sterling].

The genesis of these six essays was a series of seminars at the University of Kent. They consider three topics which, perhaps surprisingly, are less often directly or transparently related to one another in medieval and early modern writing than one might expect: ideas about dream interpretation, fictional dreams within other literary structures, and dream poems, in the sense of narratives framed by fictional dreams. The book begins with its own built-in review: a lively critique of the ensuing pieces by A. C. ...

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