William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, 1595 is dream drama set in Athens, Greece centered on the plot of the marriage of “Theseus” and “Hippolyta”. The set is in the dream “Fairyland’, and under the “moon” in the “woodlands”.
Consider the elements of “dream drama”: 1. plot, 2. character, 3. spectacle, 4. diction, 5. melody & 6. thought. Aristotle, “Poetics’, 355 BC has these six elements of drama (including “dream drama”). Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams”, 1899 is the most popular writing by Freud. “Dream drama’ is part of our sleep-wake, circadian (biological) rhythms. Psychology is a soft science , and I consider William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”,1595 is soft science-fiction.
