Slumbery Agitations: Sleep Deprivation in Macbeth.
This essay explores how Shakespeare assimilates the confusion among sleeping, dreaming, and waking in key moments in Macbeth as a means of structuring the play and to emphasize sleep's role in binding together the categories that dissolve over the course of the plot. Early in the play, Lady Macbeth...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 62 - 89 |
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