It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read The Real Shakespeare by Eric Sams
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
One of the central assumptions of established Shakespeare scholarship has been that the playwright produced flawless work needing no revision--that if a text was inferior in style, it could be assumed that Shakespeare did not write it. Thus Shakespeare had nothing to do with the "bad" quartos; these were instead the work of "memorial reconstruction," in which actors remembered and subsequently wrote down entire texts composed by others. In this controversial book, Eric Sams suggests that there is no evidence to substantiate memorial reconstruction, that Shakespeare very probably revised his...
The Real Shakespeare by Eric Sams is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.
This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read The Real Shakespeare aloud.
The Real Shakespeare is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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