![]() ‘What dreamed my lord? Tell me, and I’ll requite it with sweet rehearsal of my morning’s dream.’ ‘If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!’ ‘I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamed of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing.’ ‘Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death:įainting, despair despairing, yield thy breath!’ ‘Why, thou hast put him in such a dream, that when the image of it leaves him he must run mad.’ There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest, ‘The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.’ ‘He is a dreamer let us leave him: pass.’ And this weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream.’ ![]() ‘If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended, that you have but slumber’d here, while these visions did appear. ‘To die, to sleep – to sleep – perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause.’ ‘ There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’ Mercutio: ‘Oh, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. Romeo: ‘In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.’ ‘My troublous dreams this night doth make me sad.’ ![]() Here is a list of some of the best-known dream quotes from Shakespeare: 1. This career-long fascination is summed up when the wizard Prospero, in Shakespeare’s fantasy play, The Tempest, utters what was to become Shakespeare’s most famous dream quote, and perhaps the most famous dream quote of all time: ‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.’ ![]() A dominant recurring theme in Shakespeare’s works is the opposition of fantasy and reality, and often the confusion of the two. One of the most frequently used words in the works of Shakespeare is ‘dream’, hence this page presents a list of Shakespeare’s dream quotes. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.Throughout the play, light is intrusive and unwelcome, powerful and frightening darkness, however, is soothing and revealing, and allows the play’s titular lovers to get to know one another, to act out their fantasies of love, and to discover their true selves away from the prying eyes of their families. When that happens, she says, “all the world will be in love with night / And pay no worship to the garish sun.” Juliet knows that she and Romeo can only be together in the dead of night and wishes that it could be dark out forevermore so that their time together could be uninterrupted. Juliet, on the other hand, sees Romeo as “stars.” She looks forward to the moment he brings her to climax-when she shall “die,” she says, invoking the Elizabethan meaning of the phrase “to die” as “to orgasm”-and she sees his face “cut out in little stars” and spangled through the heavens. Thus, Romeo portrays the light of Juliet, the “sun,” as an annihilating force which harshly reveals hidden things and leaves no room for old loves or old behaviors to hide. But given the moon’s mythic association with Diana, Roman goddess of the moon and protectress of virgins, Romeo is also begging Juliet to cast off her virginity to be with him. Romeo wants Juliet’s light to blot out the “moon” of his old love, Rosaline. Though Romeo does proclaim, early on in the play, that “Juliet is the sun,” his personification of her as a bright, solar force quickly turns dark and violent as he urges her to “kill the envious moon”-a quote that has two meanings. In the world of this play, dawn, day, and bright lights are, overwhelmingly, negative-night, the only time Romeo and Juliet can be together in secret, is the time of day they both long for, and together they grow to lament the arrival of the days that pull them apart. Shakespeare, however, turns these commonplace associations on their heads and inverts both symbols. Light is typically a symbol of openness, purity, hope, and good fortune, while dark often represents confusion, obscurity, and doom. Romeo and Juliet complicates traditional notions of light versus dark and day versus night.
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