Landscapes Of The Passing Strange: Reflections from Shakespeare by Rosamund Purcell & Michael Witmore

29 in stock

241mm x 246mm x 15mm

Pages: 128

A photographic journey into the imaginative world of Shakespeares plays. In this collaborative work, photographer Rosamond Purcell and Shakespeare scholar Michael Witmore explore the transcendent emotion in Shakespeares work through photographs, pairing the allusive power of images with the subversive effects of Shakespeares language. The book takes advantage of oblique connections to reveal things that cannot be represented directly on stage.

Purcell has pioneered the technique of capturing reflections in antique mercury glass apothecary jars, resulting in haunting images that seem to move with the liquid quickness of ideas. These images are an attempt to capture Shakespeares expansive imagination in actionGÇòwhat Coleridge called his myriad-mindedness: they take a visceral journey into the world of his plays. Witmore has paired each photograph with a short passage from Shakespeares plays with an uncanny sense of the playwrights intent. 72 color illustrations