Shakespeare the illusionist : magic, dreams, and the supernatural on film /
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
[2019]
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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.