How Long to Read Shakespeare's Companies

How Long Does it Take to Read Shakespeare's Companies?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 44 minutes to read Shakespeare's Companies by Terence G. Schoone-Jongen

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

Description

Focusing on a period (c.1577-1594) that is often neglected in Elizabethan theater histories, this study considers Shakespeare's involvement with the various London acting companies before his membership in the Lord Chamberlain's Men in 1594. Locating Shakespeare in the confusing records of the early London theater scene has long been one of the many unresolved problems in Shakespeare studies and is a key issue in theatre history, Shakespeare biography, and historiography. The aim in this book is to explain, analyze, and assess the competing claims about Shakespeare's pre-1594 acting company affiliations. Schoone-Jongen does not demonstrate that one particular claim is correct but provides a possible framework for Shakespeare's activities in the 1570s and 1580s, an overview of both London and provincial playing, and then offers a detailed analysis of the historical plausibility and probability of the warring claims made by biographers, ranging from the earliest sixteenth-century references to contemporary arguments. Full chapters are devoted to four specific acting companies, their activities, and a summary and critique of the arguments for Shakespeare's involvement in them (The Queen's Men, Strange's Men, Pembroke's Men, and Sussex's Men), a further chapter is dedicated to the proposition Shakespeare's first theatrical involvement was in a recusant Lancashire household, and a final chapter focuses on arguments for Shakespeare's membership in a half dozen other companies (most prominently Leicester's Men). Shakespeare's Companies simultaneously opens up twenty years of theatrical activity to inquiry and investigation while providing a critique of Shakespearean biographers and their historical methodologies.

How long is Shakespeare's Companies?

Shakespeare's Companies by Terence G. Schoone-Jongen 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 Shakespeare's Companies Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 28 minutes to read Shakespeare's Companies aloud.

What Reading Level is Shakespeare's Companies?

Shakespeare's Companies is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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