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dream vision

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dream vision
n.
A narrative poem, especially in medieval literature, in which the main character falls asleep and experiences events having allegorical, didactic, or moral significance.


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A final scene with Bottom does not exist in Shakespeare's text, but it is a key to Hoffman's interpretation of the dream vision which is central to his film.
"Where is that worthless dreamer?" Bottom's fantastic redemption in ... by Riga, Frank P. / Mythlore
Some of the specific questions are very basic: for example, as Peter Brown asks in the first essay, why the "extraordinary concentration of English dream visions in the second half of the fourteenth century"?
Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to ... by Barnaby, Andrew / Renaissance Quarterly
Dreams as revelatory mediums are also found elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible, such as Jacob's dream vision (which, by the way, does contain an ascending/descending ladder--Gen 28:10-22; cf.
Textual and redactional aspects of the Book of Dreams (1 Enoch 83-90) by Tite, Philip L. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
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