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In this collaborative work, photographer Rosamond Purcell and Shakespeare scholar Michael Witmore explore the transcendent emotion in Shakespeare's work through photographs, pairing the allusive power of images with the subversive effects of Shakespeare's language. Purcell explores the technique of capturing reflections in antique mercury glass apothecary jars, producing haunting images that seem to move with the liquid quickness of ideas. These images are an attempt to capture Shakespeare's expansive imagination in action-what Coleridge called his "myriadmindedness": they take a visceral journey into the world of his plays. Witmore has paired each photograph with a short passage from Shakespeare's plays with an uncanny sense of the playwright's intent.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: plays & playwrights

• Full title: Landscapes of the Passing Strange
• Author: Rosamond Purcell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9780393339482
• ISBN: 0393339483
• ID: 04067918
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Weight: 570 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 242 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. September 2010

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