How Long to Read Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England

How Long Does it Take to Read Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 44 minutes to read Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England by David K. Anderson

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

Description

Focusing on Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Webster and John Milton, Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England argues that the English tragedians reflected an unease within the culture to acts of religious violence. David Anderson explores a link between the unstable emotional response of society to religious executions in the Tudor-Stuart period, and the revival of tragic drama as a major cultural form for the first time since classical antiquity. Placing John Foxe at the center of his historical argument, Anderson argues that Foxe’s Book of Martyrs exerted a profound effect on the social conscience of English Protestantism in his own time and for the next century. While scholars have in recent years discussed the impact of Foxe and the martyrs on the period’s literature, this book is the first to examine how these most vivid symbols of Reformation-era violence influenced the makers of tragedy. As the persecuting and the persecuted churches collided over the martyr’s body, Anderson posits, stress fractures ran through the culture and into the playhouse; in their depictions of violence, the early modern tragedians focused on the ethical confrontation between collective power and the individual sufferer. Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England sheds new light on the particular emotional energy of Tudor-Stuart tragedy, and helps explain why the genre reemerged at this time.

How long is Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England?

Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England by David K. Anderson 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.

How Long Does it Take to Read Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 28 minutes to read Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England aloud.

What Reading Level is Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England?

Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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