How Long to Read Barker: Plays Five

How Long Does it Take to Read Barker: Plays Five?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 24 minutes to read Barker: Plays Five by Howard Barker

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

Description

Includes the plays The Last Supper, Seven Lears, Hated Nightfall and Wounds to the Face Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. Both The Last Supper and Seven Lears exemplify Barker's way with great religious and literary stories, the first placing the willful suicide of a Christ-like prophet, Lvov, in the context of modern chaos, illuminating his moral ambiguities with comic or painful parables, the second taking its inspiration from the significant absence in Shakespeare's play, that of Lear's wife, the queen whose murder is here discerned as the origin as the great family tragedy. The execution of the Russian royal family remains shrouded in mystery - not least that of the identity of two bodies discovered in the mass grave years after the event. In Hated Nightfall Barker's speculative imagination leads him to identify these as the children's tutor, Dancer, and a recalcitrant servant, Jane. Dancer is perhaps Barker's archetypal hero, febrile, iconoclastic, yet in search of a self-sacrifice nothing appears to justify. In Wounds to the Face, our complex and sometimes violent relations with our own physiognomy form the psychological link between related scenes of wounding, notoriety, shame and vanity in a play of kaleidoscopic energy and imagery.

How long is Barker: Plays Five?

Barker: Plays Five by Howard Barker is 322 pages long, and a total of 81,144 words.

This makes it 109% the length of the average book. It also has 99% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Barker: Plays Five Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 23 minutes to read Barker: Plays Five aloud.

What Reading Level is Barker: Plays Five?

Barker: Plays Five 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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