How Long to Read Age in Love

How Long Does it Take to Read Age in Love?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 11 minutes to read Age in Love by Jacqueline Vanhoutte

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

Description

The title Age in Love is taken from Shakespeare’s sonnet 138, a poem about an aging male speaker who, by virtue of his entanglement with the dark lady, “vainly” performs the role of “some untutor’d youth.” Jacqueline Vanhoutte argues that this pattern of “age in love” pervades Shakespeare’s mature works, informing his experiments in all the dramatic genres. Bottom, Malvolio, Claudius, Falstaff, and Antony all share with the sonnet speaker a tendency to flout generational decorum by assuming the role of the lover, normally reserved in Renaissance culture for young men. Hybrids and upstarts, cross-dressers and shape-shifters, comic butts and tragic heroes—Shakespeare’s old-men-in-love turn in boundary-blurring performances that probe the gendered and generational categories by which early modern subjects conceived of identity. In Age in Love Vanhoutte shows that questions we have come to regard as quintessentially Shakespearean—about the limits of social mobility, the nature of political authority, the transformative powers of the theater, the vagaries of human memory, or the possibility of secular immortality—come to indelible expression through Shakespeare’s artful deployment of the “age in love” trope. Age in Love contributes to the ongoing debate about the emergence of a Tudor public sphere, building on the current interest in premodern constructions of aging and ultimately demonstrating that the Elizabethan court shaped Shakespeare’s plays in unexpected and previously undocumented ways.

How long is Age in Love?

Age in Love by Jacqueline Vanhoutte 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 Age in Love Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 5 minutes to read Age in Love aloud.

What Reading Level is Age in Love?

Age in Love 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

Where Can I Buy Age in Love?

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