Baring Bottom: Shakespeare and the Chaucerian Dream Vision

Author / Editor
Lynch, Kathryn L.

Title
Baring Bottom: Shakespeare and the Chaucerian Dream Vision

Published
Peter Brown, ed. Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 99-124

Description
Examines Renaissance views of Chaucer and argues that Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" was influenced by LGW. Discusses Chaucer's and Shakespeare's complex treatment of dreams and the treatment of Theseus in KnT, HF, and LGW.

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

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Knight and His Tale.
House of Fame.
Legend of Good Women.