How Long to Read The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines

How Long Does it Take to Read The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 58 minutes to read The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines by Melissa Walter

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

Description

Using a comparative, feminist approach informed by English and Italian literary and theatre studies, this book investigates connections between Shakespearean comedy and the Italian novella tradition. Shakespeare’s comedies adapted the styles of wit, character types, motifs, plots, and other narrative elements of the novella tradition for the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, and they investigated social norms and roles through a conversation carried out in narrative and drama. Arguing that Shakespeare’s comedies register the playwright’s reading of the novella tradition within the collaborative playmaking context of the early modern theatre, this book demonstrates how the comic vision of these plays increasingly valued women’s authority and consent in the comic conclusion. The representation of female characters in novella collections is complex and paradoxical, as the stories portray women not only in the roles of witty plotters and storytellers but also through a multifaceted poetics of enclosed spaces – including trunks, chests, caskets, graves, cups, and beds. The relatively open-ended rhetorical situation of early modern English theatre and the dialogic form and narrative material available in the novella tradition combine to help create the complex female characters in Shakespeare’s plays and a new form of English comedy.

How long is The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines?

The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines by Melissa Walter is 294 pages long, and a total of 74,676 words.

This makes it 99% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 48 minutes to read The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines aloud.

What Reading Level is The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines?

The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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