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The use of dreams and sleep in Shakespeare’s late plays, and the conception of the late plays as kinds of dreams, might seem radically different from what we find in Shakespeare’s earlier comedies, tragedies, and history plays. But as I have argued throughout this book, the playwright could not have written his dreamlike late plays without using dreams and sleep in the way he did in his earlier plays.
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Lyne, Raphael. 2007. Shakespeare’s Late Work. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Fretz, C. (2020). Epilogue. In: Dreams, Sleep, and Shakespeare’s Genres. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13519-5_6
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