On the Borders of Middle English Dream Visions
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Peter.
On the Borders of Middle English Dream Visions
- Published
- Peter Brown, ed. Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 22-50.
- Description
- Argues that Middle English dream visions from the second half of the fourteenth century allowed writers to experiment with altered states of consciousness and liminality. Discusses French and Middle English dream visions, including BD, HF, LGW, and PF.
- Alternative Title
- Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Book of the Duchess.
- House of Fame.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Parliament of Fowls.