A review by seanius
The Terrors of the Night by Thomas Nashe

4.0

The author of the excellently deranged Unfortunate Traveler sallies forth on a witty treatise on the nature of dreams, the foolishness of treating them as portents, and on the general hilarity of various self deceptions and delusions that border on the dream world. Progressing from a pagan world view of sprites, spirits and devils, through to a satirical consideration of the fripperies, hypocrisies and manipulations of a sophisticated polis, the text at the last breath is a quite serious tome on the benefits of a moral life, if only for the sake of a good nights sleep. I removed one star due to wife jokes...