Overview

In The Tempest, Shakespeare uses sleeping and dreaming as literary motifs and as structural and plot devices. Students will use this worksheet to find four passages about dreaming. They will review the text and then answer probing questions to discover how sleeping and dreaming relate to the characterization, structure, and plot of the play. Students will enter their notes in a chart. After completing their charts, students will write short essays that analyze how Shakespeare uses sleeping and dreaming in The Tempest. Pass out this worksheet after students have finished reading the complete text.

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