Interpreting Dreams: Reflections on Freud, Milton, and Chaucer

Author / Editor
Aers, David.

Title
Interpreting Dreams: Reflections on Freud, Milton, and Chaucer

Published
Peter Brown, ed. Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 84-98.

Description
Unlike the dream interpretations in the works of Freud and Milton, dreams in Chaucer's poems reveal the strategies of power and gender that shape the interpretation of dreams. Discusses WBP, NPT, and TC.

Alternative Title
Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Nun's Priest and His Tale.
Troilus and Criseyde.