Two Types of Dreams in the Elizabethan Drama: Somnium Animale and the Prick-of-Conscience.

Author / Editor
Presson, Robert K.

Title
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