Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture

by Carole Levin

Dreaming the English Renaissance examines ideas about dreams, actual dreams people had and recorded, and the many ways dreams were used in the culture and politics of the Tutor/Stuart age in order to provide a window into the mental life and the most profound beliefs of people of the time.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

224 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2008

About the author

Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author of Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture and The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power.

Reviews

[Matt Sautman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dreaming the English Renaissance is a bit too dense beyond its opening chapters to be that meaningful for anyone other than a scholar of the early modern period. Levin does provide interesting insight into the significance dreams play in the period but this is definitely a book that is best to read only the sections that one is interested in rather than reading cover-to-cover.