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1 online resource (viii, 223 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-215) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 in Shakespeare and film studies. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Film adaptations.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations.
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| Subject |
Dreams in motion pictures.
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Dreams in motion pictures. |
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Illusion in motion pictures.
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Illusion in motion pictures. |
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Supernatural in motion pictures.
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Supernatural in motion pictures. |
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Film adaptations -- History and criticism.
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Film adaptations. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Film adaptations.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Forsyth, Neil, 1944- Shakespeare the illusionist. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019] 9780821423363 (DLC) 2018045766 (OCoLC)1031345416 |
| ISBN |
9780821446478 (electronic book) |
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0821446479 (electronic book) |
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9780821423363 |
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0821423363 |
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