It takes the average reader 4 hours and 28 minutes to read Performing King Lear by Jonathan Croall
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
King Lear is arguably the most complex and demanding play in the whole of Shakespeare. Once thought impossible to stage, today it is performed with increasing frequency, both in Britain and America. It has been staged more often in the last fifty years than in the previous 350 years of its performance history, its bleak message clearly chiming in with the growing harshness, cruelty and violence of the modern world. Performing King Lear offers a very different and practical perspective from most studies of the play, being centred firmly on the reality of creation and performance. The book is...
Performing King Lear by Jonathan Croall is 264 pages long, and a total of 67,056 words.
This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 6 minutes to read Performing King Lear aloud.
Performing King Lear is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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