摘要：This paper argues that Shakespeare’s dreamscape—manifest dreams; dreamlike attributes; discourses and semantic associations—follows a probability of archetypal psychic moods; pervaded by oneiric intertextuality of Jungian shadows. In Tudor England; dream reportage was deeply contested due to religious feuds revolving around the English Reformation; dreaming was subsumed in martyrological; heretical and religious discourses. The profuse dream reportage in Shakespeare—across Tudor England; Caesarian Rome; Ptolemaic Egypt and uninhabited Mediterranean Islands—supports an affective resonance across the canon. Dream reportage became a new skill permeating space and time on the Elizabethan stage; if not necessarily outside. Based on dream data from Shakespeare; we examine the probability distribution of redeemable; non-redeemable and ambivalent archetypal dream moods. Redeemable moods occupy nearly 40 per cent of the dreamscape’s probability. Since Shakespeare deployed dreams much more numerously than his contemporaries; his dreamscape operates as a prerational organ; dynamically morphing the body of the canon (and minds of actors); in the context of improvised theatrical productions in Elizabethan times; and theatrical affect in general.
