It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Adapting Macbeth by William C. Carroll
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In this study, William C. Carroll analyses a wide range of adaptations and appropriations of Macbeth across different media to consider what it is about the play that compels our desire to reshape it. Arguing that many of these adaptations attempt to 'improve' or 'correct' the play's perceived political or aesthetic flaws, Carroll traces how Macbeth's popularity and adaptability stems from several of its formal features: its openly political nature; its inclusion of supernatural elements; its parable of the dangers of ambition; its violence; its brevity; and its domestic focus on a husband...
Adapting Macbeth by William C. Carroll is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.
This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read Adapting Macbeth aloud.
Adapting Macbeth is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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