How long does it take to read The Theater and Its Double?
Antonin Artaud
The Theater and Its Double by Antonin Artaud takes about 2 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 55 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1958. 159 pages, about 43,725 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Theater And Its Double is a collection of essays by french poet and playwrite Anton Artaud. Published in 1938. Artaud intended his work as an attack on theatrical convention and the importance of language of drama, opposing the vitality of the viewers sensual experience against theater as a contrived literary form, and urgency of expression against complacency on the part of the audience.
Subjects: Theater, Teatro (Producao E Direcao), Theatre, Aufsatzsammlung
