It takes the average reader 7 hours and 15 minutes to read A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen. James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare’s staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599, bringing together the news and the intrigue of the times with a wonderful evocation...
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro is 432 pages long, and a total of 108,864 words.
This makes it 146% the length of the average book. It also has 133% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 54 minutes to read A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare aloud.
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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