How Long to Read Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland

How Long Does it Take to Read Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland by Mr John J McGavin

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Description

Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland analyses narrative accounts of public theatricality in late medieval and early-modern Scottish culture (pre-1645). Literary texts such as journal, memoir and chronicles reveal a complex spectatorship in which eye witness, textual witness and the imagination interconnect. The narrators represent a broad variety of public actions as theatrical: included are instances of assault and assassination, petition, clerical interrogation, dissent, preaching, play and display, the performance of identity and the spectatorship of tourism. Varying influences of personal experience, oral tradition, and existing written record colour the narratives. Discernible also are those rhetorical and generic forms which witnesses employ to give a comprehensible shape to events. Narratives of theatricality prove central for understanding early Scottish culture since they record moments of contact between those in power and those without it; they show how participants aimed to influence both present spectators and the witness of history; they reveal the contested nature of ambiguous public genres, and they point up the pleasures and responsibilities of spectatorship. McGavin demonstrates that early Scottish culture is revealed as much in its processes of witnessing as in that which it claims to witness. Although the book's emphasis is on the early modern period, its study of chronicle narratives takes it back from the period of their composition (predominantly 15th and 16th century) to earlier medieval events.

How long is Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland?

Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland by Mr John J McGavin is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.

This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland aloud.

What Reading Level is Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland?

Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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