How long does it take to read The Spanish Tragedy?
Thomas Kyd
The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd takes about 2 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 30 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1594. 136 pages, about 37,400 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 61 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A revenge play or revenge tragedy. Its plot contains several violent murders and includes as one of its characters a personification of Revenge. Contains the play-within-a-play used to trap a murderer and a ghost intent on vengeance, which became popular motifs in plays that followed.
Subjects: English drama, English drama (Tragedy), Theater, Spanish tragedy (Kyd, Thomas), Nobility, Drama
