Shakespeare the illusionist : magic, dreams, and the supernatural on film / Neil Forsyth.
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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Table of Contents:
- 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.