Two Types of Dreams in the Elizabethan Drama: Somnium Animale and the Prick-of-Conscience.
- Author / Editor
- Presson, Robert K.
Two Types of Dreams in the Elizabethan Drama: Somnium Animale and the Prick-of-Conscience.
- Published
- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 7 (1967): 239-56.
- Description
- Inculdes comments on the "somnium animale" in classical and medieval literature, particularly Chaucer's dream poetry. Explores the possibility that the dream in PF influenced Mercutio's dream of Mab in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Parliament of Fowls