The Sleep-Symbol in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and in "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2, , language: English, abstract: This paper is about the symbol ‘sleep’ in Shakespeare’s plays “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Macbeth”. The author will discuss the definition and the role of sleep, in the two already mentioned works, in chapter 2 and 3 by analysing the symbol in detail...