How Long to Read Gilbert Murray's Euripides

How Long Does it Take to Read Gilbert Murray's Euripides?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 50 minutes to read Gilbert Murray's Euripides by Euripides

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

Description

In the story of the reception of Greek tragedy throughout the English-speaking world, Murray is a figure of immense importance. He unlocked the gates of commercial theatre to its performance - and its performance in verse - on both sides of the Atlantic, bringing to the project his enormous personal prestige, especially after his election to the Regius Chair of Greek at Oxford in 1908. His Oxford Classical Text of all the complete plays of Euripides lent scholarly weight to his theatrical enterprise; passionate though he was about communicating Greek culture to the widest possible public (by the 1920s over a quarter of a million copies of the translations had been sold), he could never be written off as a mere popularizer. Most significant of all, he laid down in the early years of the twentieth century the terms on which scholar and public alike have viewed Greek drama throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. It was Murray who insisted, from the pulpit of the popular stage, on the political nature of Greek tragedy (first connecting Troades with the fate of Melos); on its historical resonances (Troades chiming in with his own distaste for British conduct of the Boer War); on its social urgency (his support for women's suffrage informing his Medea); on the religious and anthropological assumptions that permeate it (his introduction to Bacchae acknowledging his debt to Jane Harrison); and on the remarkable psychological truth in its delineation of character (emphasized in his notes on Electra). And on all this he insisted as a man with a keen instinct for the theatre, who was deferred to alike by actors (Sibyl Thorndike), by directors (Granville Barker) and by fellow playwrights (George Bernard Shaw). His was the voice which had something wonderful to communicate and which could not be ignored.

How long is Gilbert Murray's Euripides?

Gilbert Murray's Euripides by Euripides is 470 pages long, and a total of 117,500 words.

This makes it 159% the length of the average book. It also has 144% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Gilbert Murray's Euripides Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 42 minutes to read Gilbert Murray's Euripides aloud.

What Reading Level is Gilbert Murray's Euripides?

Gilbert Murray's Euripides 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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