Shakespeare the illusionist : magic, dreams, and the supernatural on film /

In Shakespeare the Illusionist, Neil Forsyth reviews the history of Shakespeare's plays on film, assessing what filmmakers and TV directors have made of the spells, haunts, and apparitions-- Puck and the fairies, ghosts and witches, or Prospero's island--in his plays. A bold step forward i...

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Main Author: Forsyth, Neil, 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]
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505 0 |a Introduction : from stage to screen -- Part one. Film language. Silent ghosts, speaking ghosts : movies about movies -- Méliès and the pioneers -- Part two. Shakespeare films. "Stay, illusion" -- Supernatural comedies : A midsummer night's dream and The tempest -- "The most unfortunate major film ever produced" : Shakespeare and the talkies -- Ghosts and courts : the openings of Hamlet -- Macbeth and the supernatural -- Conclusion. A new hybrid : Taymor's dream. 
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