To Sleep Perchance, To Dream: Shakespeare's Use Of Dream and Sleep Motifs To Create The Gothic Reality Although Shakespeare's contribution to the Gothic novel was acknowledged by Horace Walpole in the preface to the Second Edition of "The Castle of Otranto," "shelter[ing] my own daring under the cannon of the brightest genius in the country" (Walpole 13), the extent to which the Gothic sensibility informs so many of Shakespeare's plays has only recently been conceded by many mainstream scholars. ... However, Jerrold Hogle points out in his essay "Afterwa...

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Shakespeare is regarded as the best English playwright who until now has been known. ... Shakespeare was born into a wealthy family is that his father John Shakespeare was a businessman and his mother Mary Arden came from a wealthy family, but later came adversity and John Shakespeare was devoted to a butcher with the help of their children . ... Shakespeare had not ceased to grow their readings among the most stressed of Montaigne. After this William Shakespeare began writing his works. ... In 1602 he wrote a good beginning Ends Well, Troilus and grown and Hamlet. ...

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