How long does it take to read Plays (36)?
Plays (36) by William Shakespeare takes about 16 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 16 hours 18 minutes
A long haul
First published 1623. 889 pages, about 244,475 words.
33 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 27 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 16 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 256 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
aka The First Folio Contains 36 plays: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Julius Caesar King Henry IV. Part 1 King Henry IV. Part 2 King Henry V King Henry VI. Part 1 King Henry VI. Part 2 King Henry VI. Part 3 King Henry VIII King John King Lear King Richard II King Richard III Love’s Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice Merry Wives of Windsor Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Romeo and Juliet Taming of the Shrew Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of Verona Winter’s Tale Order varies by edition.
Subjects: sources, English Manuscripts, Classics, performing arts, English drama, tragicomedy
