In Shakespeare the Illusionist, Neil Forsyth reviews the history of Shakespeare's plays on film, using the basic distinction in film tradition between what is owed to M li s and what to the Lumi re brothers. He then tightens his focus on those plays that include some explicit magical or supernatural elements--Puck and the fairies, ghosts and witches, or Prospero's island, for example--and sets out methodically, but with an easy touch, to...