“‘Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen tongue and brain not.” Dream as performance in Cymbeline
Posthumus’ dream in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline is significant in that it is a striking example of dream as performance. As he lies sleeping, Posthumus’ dream is fully enacted onstage so that the audience participates in the dreaming spectacle and is affected by, simultaneously with him, the instructive...
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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/1404 |