Shakespeare the IllusionistIn Shakespeare the Illusionist, Neil Forsyth reviews the history of Shakespeares plays on film, using the basic distinction in film tradition between what is owed to Mlis and what to the Lumire brothers. He then tightens his focus on those plays that include some explicit magical or supernatural elementsPuck and the fairies, ghosts and witches, or Prosperos island, for exampleand sets out methodically, but with an easy touch, to review all the films