How Long to Read Adapting King Lear for the Stage

How Long Does it Take to Read Adapting King Lear for the Stage?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 11 minutes to read Adapting King Lear for the Stage by Lynne Bradley

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

Description

Questioning whether the impulse to adapt Shakespeare has changed over time, Lynne Bradley argues for restoring a sense of historicity to the study of adaptation. Bradley compares Nahum Tate's History of King Lear (1681), adaptations by David Garrick in the mid-eighteenth century, and nineteenth-century Shakespeare burlesques to twentieth-century theatrical rewritings of King Lear, and suggests latter-day adaptations should be viewed as a unique genre that allows playwrights to express modern subject positions with regard to their literary heritage while also participating in broader debates about art and society. In identifying and relocating different adaptive gestures within this historical framework, Bradley explores the link between the critical and the creative in the history of Shakespearean adaptation. Focusing on works such as Gordon Bottomley's King Lear's Wife (1913), Edward Bond's Lear (1971), Howard Barker's Seven Lears (1989), and the Women's Theatre Group's Lear's Daughters (1987), Bradley theorizes that modern rewritings of Shakespeare constitute a new type of textual interaction based on a simultaneous double-gesture of collaboration and rejection. She suggests that this new interaction provides constituent groups, such as the feminist collective who wrote Lear's Daughters, a strategy to acknowledge their debt to Shakespeare while writing against the traditional and negative representations of femininity they see reflected in his plays.

How long is Adapting King Lear for the Stage?

Adapting King Lear for the Stage by Lynne Bradley is 305 pages long, and a total of 77,775 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 95% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Adapting King Lear for the Stage Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 5 minutes to read Adapting King Lear for the Stage aloud.

What Reading Level is Adapting King Lear for the Stage?

Adapting King Lear for the Stage is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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