It takes the average reader 3 hours and 59 minutes to read Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe by Mathew R. Martin
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Contending that criticism of Marlowe’s plays has been limited by humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages with trauma theory, especially psychoanalytic trauma theory, to offer a fresh critical perspective within which to make sense of the tension in Marlowe’s plays between the tragic and the traumatic. The author argues that tragedies are trauma narratives, narratives of wounding; however, in Marlowe’s plays, a traumatic aesthetics disrupts the closure that tragedy seeks to enact. Martin’s fresh reading of Massacre at Paris, which is often dismissed by critics as a bad tragedy,...
Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe by Mathew R. Martin is 235 pages long, and a total of 59,925 words.
This makes it 79% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe aloud.
Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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