How Long to Read Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing

How Long Does it Take to Read Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing by Meredith Anne Skura

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

Description

For the Renaissance, all the world may have been a stage and all its people players, but Shakespeare was also an actor on the literal stage. Meredith Anne Skura asks what it meant to be an actor in Shakespeare's England and shows why a knowledge of actual theatrical practices is essential for understanding both Shakespeare's plays and the theatricality of everyday life in early modern England. Despite the obvious differences between our theater and Shakespeare's, sixteenth-century testimony suggests that the experience of acting has not changed much over the centuries. Beginning with a psychoanalytically informed account of acting today, Skura shows how this intense and ambivalent experience appears not only in literal references to acting in Shakespearean drama but also in recurring narrative concerns, details of language, and dramatic strategies used to engage the audience. Looking at the plays in the context of both public and private worlds outside the theater, Skura rereads the canon to identify new configurations in the plays and new ways of understanding theatrical self-consciousness in Renaissance England. Rich in theatrical, psychoanalytic, biographical, and historical insight, this book will be invaluable to students of Shakespeare and instructive to all readers interested in the dynamics of performance.

How long is Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing?

Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing by Meredith Anne Skura is 342 pages long, and a total of 86,184 words.

This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing aloud.

What Reading Level is Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing?

Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing 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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