SOURCE: "'Begot of Nothing?': Dreams and Imagination in Romeo and Juliet," in Classical, Renaissance, and Postmodernist Acts of the Imagination: Essays Commemorating O. B. Hardison, Jr., edited by Arthur F. Kinney, Associated University Presses, 1996, pp. 195-210.
In the following essay, Holmer examines Romeo and Juliet, investigating Shakespeare's imaginative transmutation of Thomas Nashe's ideas on dreams and dreaming in the play.