It takes the average reader 4 hours and 44 minutes to read Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage by Michael Shapiro
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Cross-dressing, sexual identity, and the performance of gender are among the most hotly discussed topics in contemporary cultural studies. A vital addition to the growing body of literature, this book is the most in-depth and historically contextual study to date of Shakespeare's uses of the heroine in male disguise--man-playing-woman-playing-man--in all its theatrical and social complexity. Shapiro's study centers on the five plays in which Shakespeare employed the figure of the "female page": The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and Cymbeline....
Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage by Michael Shapiro is 282 pages long, and a total of 71,064 words.
This makes it 95% the length of the average book. It also has 87% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 28 minutes to read Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage aloud.
Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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