How Long to Read Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare

How Long Does it Take to Read Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare?

It takes the average reader 3 hours to read Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare by Adrian Howe

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

Description

Bringing key Shakespeare texts into dialogue with feminist socio-legal research, this book investigates the notion of a ‘crime of passion’ – indicatively, wife-killing. Its key concern is to bring attention to a cultural and legal revolution widely overlooked even in the law field where it occurred. In 2009, the English Parliament passed a controversial law abolishing the defence of provocation. Explaining the new law, reformers said that this so-called ‘heat of passion’ defence had allowed men to get away with murder by blaming the victim. Abolishing it in cases of alleged ‘infidelity’ would ‘end the culture of excuses’. Unpacking what was at stake in the reformers’ revolutionary challenge to the English law of murder’s age-old concession to ‘human frailty’ in ‘red mist’ rage cases, this book charts passion’s progress in wife-killing cases over the centuries. It commences in the early modern era when jurists were busy distinguishing murder from manslaughter and, contemporaneously, Shakespeare set about querying culturally inscribed excuses for femicide in his plays, Titus Andronicus and Othello. This book will appeal to feminist and socio-legal scholars, criminologists and those working in the fields of law and literature, legal theory and Shakespeare studies. More widely, it will appeal to anyone interested in so-called ‘crimes of passion’.

How long is Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare?

Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare by Adrian Howe is 180 pages long, and a total of 45,000 words.

This makes it 61% the length of the average book. It also has 55% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 5 minutes to read Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare aloud.

What Reading Level is Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare?

Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare is suitable for students ages 10 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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