Arthos, John. Shakespeare's Use of Dream and Vision. Totowa, N. J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1977, 208 p.

Extensive study of dreams and apparitions in Shakespeare's dramas and poetry.

Cook, Eleanor. "'Methought' as Dream Formula in Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats and Others." English Language Notes XXXII, No. 4 (June 1995): 34-46.

Examines Shakespeare's influential use of the word "methought" as a prelude to the recitation of a dream.

Garber, Marjorie B. "Dream and Plot: Richard III" In Dream in Shakespeare: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis, pp. 15-26. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974.

Comments on Richard's prophetic dream in Richard III.

James, L. L. "The Dramatic Effects of the Play-Within-a-Play in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Marlowe's Dr. Faustus." Litteraria 5, No. 9 (1995): 17-31.

Explores Hamlet's metaphysical statement, "I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space—were it not that I have bad dreams" as indicative of a crisis of knowledge analogous to that of the title character of Christopher Marlowe's Faustus.

Presson, Robert K. "Two Types of Dreams in the Elizabethan Drama, and their Heritage: Somnium Animale and the Prick-of-Conscience." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 VII, No. 2 (Spring 1967): 239-56.

Recounts the presentation of dreams resulting from "discomforts of the body" or from suppressed anxieties in the works of Shakespeare and others.

Skura, Meredith. "Interpreting Posthumus' Dream from Above and Below: Families, Psychoanalysts, and Literary Critics." In Representing Shakespeare: New Psychoanalytic Essays, edited by Murray M. Schwartz and Coppélia Kahn, pp. 203-16. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.

Investigates the psychological importance of family in Shakespeare's Cymbeline, emphasizing the climactic revelation of this theme in Posthumus's dream.

Smith, Warren D. "Romeo's Final Dream." Modern Language Review 62, No. 4 (October 1967): 579-83.

Interprets Romeo's final dream in Romeo and Juliet—in which Juliet finds Romeo dead then kisses and revives him—as symbolically true.

Stockholder, Kay. "'So Many Fathoms Deep': Love and Death in Hamlet. In Dream Works: Lovers and Families in Shakespeare's Plays, pp. 40-64. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987.

Discusses how Hamlet commingles his dreams of sex and death and turns them into realities.