Katharine Hodgkin teaches in the School of Social Science, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London.Michelle O'Callaghan teaches in the School of English and American Literature, University of Reading.S. J. Wiseman teaches in the School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London.

• 1. Introduction: Reading the Early Modern Dream S.J. Wiseman2. Dreaming, Motion, Meaning: Oneiric Transport in Seventeenth- EuropeMary Baine Campbell3. ‘Onely Proper Unto Man’: Dreaming and Being Human Erica Fudge4. Dream-Visions of Elizabeth I Helen Hackett5. Dreams, Prophecies and Politics: John Dee and the Elizabethan Court, 1575-85Stephen Clucas6. Dreaming the Dead: Ghosts and History in the early Seventeenth- CenturyMichelle O’Callaghan7. ‘Imaginarie in Manner, Reall in Matter’: Rachel Speght’s Dreame and the Female Scholar-PoetKate Lilley8. Dreaming Meanings: Some Early Modern Dream Thoughts Katharine Hodgkin9. ‘I Saw No Angel’: Civil War Dreams and the History of Dreaming S.J. WisemanContributors