It takes the average reader 2 hours and 31 minutes to read The Wye Plays by David Ian Rabey
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A first volume of plays by a startlingly ambitious and inventive dramatist. The Back of Beyond takes, as its starting point, the route of a sequel to King Lear, in which the surviving Shakespearean characters set out on an odyssey through a perilous, blasted landscape, and encounter new agents of cruelty, desire and magic. Wildly humorous and fiercely shocking, the play charts a series of remorseless exposures, interrogating the idealisms and brutal repressions that have informed Anglo-Welsh relations whilst subverting Shakespearean motifs; tragically humorous poetic language and nightmarish...
The Wye Plays by David Ian Rabey is 151 pages long, and a total of 37,901 words.
This makes it 51% the length of the average book. It also has 46% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 27 minutes to read The Wye Plays aloud.
The Wye Plays is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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