{"product_id":"shakespeare-the-illusionist-9780821423363","title":"Shakespeare the Illusionist","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eShakespeare the Illusionist,\u003c\/i\u003e 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 in Shakespeare and film studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a wonderful book: learned, bright, and winningly written. It tackles an interesting issue (the nature of illusion in an art form which is all illusion) in Shakespeare on film and does so by not only providing rich and satisfying readings of some major Shakespeare films (Olivier’s \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e and Welles’s \u003ci\u003eMacbeth,\u003c\/i\u003e for example) that I had thought had been well mined by previous critics, but does so by placing those films in the context of the larger film history.”","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406002856279,"sku":"9780821423363","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780821423363.jpg?v=1730494202","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shakespeare-the-illusionist-9780821423363","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}