How Long to Read Howard Barker: Plays Twelve

How Long Does it Take to Read Howard Barker: Plays Twelve?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 20 minutes to read Howard Barker: Plays Twelve by Howard Barker

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

Description

The theatre of Howard Barker subverts myth and invents history in its pursuit of the meaning of individual integrity. Repudiating politics and asserting the primacy of the emotions, Barker's tragedy is written in a language by turns poetic and brutally mundane. The effects are disconcerting and destabilizing, as he insists tragedy must be. The twelfth and final collection of plays from this celebrated, influential and widely-studied playwright includes: At Her Age and Hers, which uses Velázquez's painting Las Meninas to meditate on the making of a work of art, removing the figures from the frame, animating them, and assembling them again. Landscape with Cries, which invokes the savagery of the Peasants' Revolt of fourteenth-century France to create an unlikely heroine. Womanly, a play which is alternatively dreamlike and nightmarish in its biography of Elbow, the aptly named protagonist who defies the conventional morals of her day. Four Dialogues which are small in size of cast, but ambitious in their confrontations with the ideas of faith, language, and longing. Struggling to define their needs, the characters come near to the final purpose of Barker's dramatic endeavour – the discovery of a reason to exist. True Condition – both the title of the play and the name of an unseaworthy vessel – which tells of the final voyage of a boat crewed by criminals.

How long is Howard Barker: Plays Twelve?

Howard Barker: Plays Twelve by Howard Barker is 440 pages long, and a total of 110,000 words.

This makes it 148% the length of the average book. It also has 134% more words than the average book.

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

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 1 minute to read Howard Barker: Plays Twelve aloud.

What Reading Level is Howard Barker: Plays Twelve?

Howard Barker: Plays Twelve 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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