This chapter outlines the rise of the performance of consciousness in play texts from the Middle Ages onwards, focusing on the key art movement of the 19th century of symbolism which concurred with the rise of the psychological sciences and a renewed interest in dreams. It explores how radical departures from the conventional tropes of the drama and storytelling facilitated the covert...
This chapter gives an overview of the various readings as to what dreams are which support the investigation of the nature of my own dreaming consciousness, examining the narrative qualities and properties of a series of dreams recorded from 2011 onwards, in preparation for an examination of dream plays in Part 2 . My dream reports are not recounted for analysis and interpretation, nor for...