The film treats lexicography as a high-stakes adventure, showing how words can bridge the gap between sanity and madness.
This is a feature on the 2019 biographical drama (internationally known as The Professor and the Madman ), a film that explores the monumental creation of the Oxford English Dictionary through an unlikely and tragic partnership. The Core Story: A Dictionary Born of Madness
Based on Simon Winchester’s non-fiction book The Surgeon of Crowthorne , the film stars as Professor James Murray. In the mid-19th century, Murray took on the Herculean task of compiling every word in the English language, including their origins and history.
The film treats lexicography as a high-stakes adventure, showing how words can bridge the gap between sanity and madness.
This is a feature on the 2019 biographical drama (internationally known as The Professor and the Madman ), a film that explores the monumental creation of the Oxford English Dictionary through an unlikely and tragic partnership. The Core Story: A Dictionary Born of Madness Il professore e il pazzo
Based on Simon Winchester’s non-fiction book The Surgeon of Crowthorne , the film stars as Professor James Murray. In the mid-19th century, Murray took on the Herculean task of compiling every word in the English language, including their origins and history. The film treats lexicography as a high-stakes adventure,