‘My dream was lengthened after life’: sleep, hallucinations and the supernatural in early modern drama

This thesis considers the ways in which the supernatural in early modern drama is connected to sleep paralysis and hypnagogic/hypnopompic hallucinations. Using modern psychological studies alongside early modern medical treatises, dietaries, and supernatural pamphlets, I consider the impact that sle...

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Main Author: Chloe Owen
Format: Default Thesis
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified
sleep
sleep paralysis
hypnagogic
hypnopompic
hallucinations
vestibular- motor
sensed intruder
parasomnias
supernatural
ghosts
demons
devils
witchcraft
fairies
incubus
succubus
Shakespeare
Marston
Chapman
Tourneur
Middleton
Rowley
Dekker
Ford
Sampson
Newdigate
Studies in the Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.26174/thesis.lboro.16680532.v1
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