How Long to Read A Gentleman Player: His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen Elizabeth

How Long Does it Take to Read A Gentleman Player: His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen Elizabeth?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 32 minutes to read A Gentleman Player: His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen Elizabeth by Robert Neilson Stephens

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

At three o'clock in the afternoon of the cold first Monday in March, 1601, a red flag rose, and a trumpet sounded thrice, from a little gabled turret protruding up out of a large wooden building in a field in that part of Southwark known as the Bankside and bordering on the Thames west of London Bridge. This rude edifice, or enclosure, was round (not like its successor, hexagonal) in shape; was in great part roofless; was built on a brick and stone foundation, and was encircled by a ditch for drainage. It was, in fact, the Globe Theatre; and the flag and trumpet meant that the "Lord Chamberlain's servants" were about to begin their performance, which, as the bill outside the door told in rough letters, was to be that of a new "Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmark," written by William Shakespeare. London folk knew this Master Shakespeare well as one of the aforesaid "servants," as the maker of most of the plays enacted now by those servants, and, which was deemed far more to his honor, as the poet of "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece." Many who read the playbill guessed rightly that the new "tragicall historie" was based in part upon another author's old play, which they had seen performed many times in the past. The audience, in all colours and qualities of doublet and hose, ruff and cloak, feathered hat and plain cap and scholar's coif, had awaited noisily the parting of the worsted curtains of the stage projecting from one side of the circular interior of the barnlike playhouse. Around the other sides were wooden galleries, and under these was a raised platform divided into boxes called "rooms," whose fronts were hung with painted cloth. The stage and the actors' tiring-room behind it were under a roof of thatch. The boxes had the galleries for cover. But the great central O-shaped space, known as the "yard," where self-esteeming citizens, and assertive scholars, and black-robed lawyers, and burly soldiers, and people of countless occupations, and people of no occupation at all, stood and crowded and surged and talked and chaffed, and bought fruit and wine and beer from the clamorous venders, had no ceiling but the sky. It had no floor but the bare ground, and no seats whatever.

How long is A Gentleman Player: His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen Elizabeth?

A Gentleman Player: His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen Elizabeth by Robert Neilson Stephens is 438 pages long, and a total of 113,004 words.

This makes it 148% the length of the average book. It also has 138% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Gentleman Player: His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen Elizabeth Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 17 minutes to read A Gentleman Player: His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen Elizabeth aloud.

What Reading Level is A Gentleman Player: His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen Elizabeth?

A Gentleman Player: His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen Elizabeth is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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