There are a lot of books about Shakespeare, and there are a lot of books about magic, but Emily Carding’s So Potent Art: The Magic of Shakespeare does something rather special: it brings the two together in a way that feels both intelligent and alive. This is not just a book about witches in Macbeth or fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Those familiar examples are here, of course, but Carding goes much further. The book explores the magical, occult and esoteric currents t