“Either his notion weakens, or his discernings / Are lethargied”: Sleeplessness and Waking Dreams as Tragedy in Julius Caesar and King Lear
Drawing on the early modern physiological understanding of sleeplessness and hallucinations, this article examines how Shakespeare’s dramatic representations of insomnia and waking dreams support his tragedies’ iconic emphasis on bodily and mental suffering. To that end, I consider Brutus’s insomnia...
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/1383 |