How Long to Read Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters

How Long Does it Take to Read Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 27 minutes to read Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters by Alan C. Dessen

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

Description

Alan Dessert samples about four hundred manuscripts and printed plays to record the original staging conventions of the age of Shakespeare. After studying the stage properties, movements and configurations implicit in recurrent phrases and stage directions, he concludes that Elizabethan spectators, less concerned with realism than later generations, were used to receiving a kind of theatrical shorthand transmitted by the actors from the playwright. Professor Dessert both describes this shorthand (e.g. the use of nightgowns, boots and dishevelled hair) and draws attention to the implications...

How long is Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters?

Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters by Alan C. Dessen is 204 pages long, and a total of 51,816 words.

This makes it 69% the length of the average book. It also has 63% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 43 minutes to read Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters aloud.

What Reading Level is Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters?

Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters 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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