Dreams, Stress, and Interpretation in Chaucer and His Contemporaries

Author / Editor
Hale, David G.

Title
Dreams, Stress, and Interpretation in Chaucer and His Contemporaries

Published
Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 9 (1988): 47-61.

Description
In Chaucer and other fourteenth-century writers, dreams often prompt the dreamers to try to assert intellectual control over their mysterious experience by classifying the possible causes or truth values of dreams. Earlier classifications of this sort were supplemented by newer ones, such as Nicholas of Lyra's (text and translation in appendix).

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.