How Long to Read The Complete Plays of Jean Racine

How Long Does it Take to Read The Complete Plays of Jean Racine?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 50 minutes to read The Complete Plays of Jean Racine by Jean Racine

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

Description

This is the third volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays—only the third time such a project has been undertaken. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has rendered these plays in the verse form that Racine might well have used had he been English: namely, the “heroic” couplet. Argent has exploited the couplet’s compressed power and flexibility to produce a work of English literature, a verse drama as gripping in English as Racine’s is in French. Complementing the translation are the illuminating Discussion, intended as much to provoke discussion as to provide it, and the extensive Notes and Commentary, which offer their own fresh and thought-provoking insights. In Iphigenia, his ninth play, Racine returns to Greek myth for the first time since Andromache. To Euripides’s version of the tale he adds a love interest between Iphigenia and Achilles. And dissatisfied with the earlier resolutions of the Iphigenia myth (her actual death or her eleventh-hour rescue by a dea ex machina), Racine creates a wholly original character, Eriphyle, who, in addition to providing an intriguing new denouement, serves the dual dramatic purpose of triangulating the love interest and galvanizing the wholesome “family values” of this play by a jolt of supercharged passion.

How long is The Complete Plays of Jean Racine?

The Complete Plays of Jean Racine by Jean Racine is 110 pages long, and a total of 27,500 words.

This makes it 37% the length of the average book. It also has 34% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Complete Plays of Jean Racine Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 30 minutes to read The Complete Plays of Jean Racine aloud.

What Reading Level is The Complete Plays of Jean Racine?

The Complete Plays of Jean Racine is suitable for students ages 10 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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