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A complete list of all the plays in order, from longest to shortest. Shakespeare is usually spoken at the rate of 1000 lines per hour so you can get a rough estimate how long each play is in performance.
Read our list of Shakespeare plays below, sorted alphabetically, by date written and by word length. Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays during his lifetime, possibly more (there is at least one ‘lost’ play – Cardenio).
Here is a list of the length of all Shakespeare’s plays. As a rule of thumb, 1000 lines of Shakespeare’s text converts to about one hour of stage time, when performed. Most plays, however, are cut down for performance.
Maybe you want to choose a play to fit the time you have. Maybe you just want to know what you're getting yourself into. Here are the plays sorted by length.
The average length of a play in Elizabethan England was 3000 lines. With 4,042 lines and 29,551 words, Hamlet is the longest Shakespearean play (based on the first edition of The Riverside Shakespeare (1974)).
Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays as well as their classifications as tragedy, history, comedy, or otherwise is a matter of scholarly debate.
18 Μαΐ 2024 · This chronological list of Shakespeare's dramatic works includes all 38 plays in the order they were first performed—from Macbeth to Hamlet and more.
