Oscar Wilde's new play opens in Manchester (1892)

Out of curiosity I did a little benchmark of this rather convoluted but well written 1892 review against a limited sample of 2017 theater reviews. All from The Guardian.

Some of my findings:

- Recent reviews are < 2000 chars long, versus 5856 chars in the posted article. - Recent reviews are 22 words per sentence long on average, versus 28 words/sentence avg in the article. - Recent reviews have 62% unique words, against 39% uniqueness in the posted article.

If we compared news articles instead of reviews, I bet the difference would probably be more remarkable.

To do this I've used this online tool:

http://countwordsworth.com/wordspersentence