Symbolism and Imagery in A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Meaning of Court Marriage

The Twelve Ages of Man

To all English-speaking people, Shakespeare's words on any subject are final. We think of Pyramus and Thisbe as comic, rather than romantic, characters, because they were played by the "rude mechanicals" in the Midsummer Night's Dream, and the Ages of Man are, beyond all question, seven, as enumerated by the melancholy Jacques. But, though Shakespeare has fixed this number, seven, so firmly in ...

Simple method of producing dreamlike visual images in the waking state; a preliminary report.

J T R E U D POINTED OUT that the production of a manifest dream from a latent dream thought involves essentially the regressive transformation of the latent dream thought, as expressed in words, into perceptual forms, most commonly into visual images. These are then subjected to symbolic representation, condensation, substitution of a part for a whole, hints and allusions, and displacement of a...

A mid-winter night's dream ….

The Construction of Gender Symbolism in Ibn S|r|n's and Ibn Sha≠h|n's Medieval Arabic Dream Texts

INTRODUCTORY AND METHODOLOGICAL REMARKS It was years ago when I first bought my Bulaq edition of Arabic dream texts authored by the three canonical interpreters: Ibn S|r|n, Ibn Sha≠ h|n, and al-Na≠ bulus|. In the eighties it was a favorite pastime among some Cairene intellectuals to read such popular classics, a way to converse with and learn more about the past. But what began as a pastime dev...