Shakespeare the Illusionist: Magic, Dreams, and the Supernatural on Film

by Neil Forsyth and Neil Forsyth

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821423363
• ISBN13: 9780821423363
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"