How long does it take to read Works (46)?
Works (46) by William Shakespeare takes about 26 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 26 hours 28 minutes
A long haul
First published 1905. 1,444 pages, about 397,100 words.
53 days (about 8 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 44 hours 7 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 26 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 16 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 45 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Contains (order varies by edition): Comedies The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Taming of the Shrew The Comedy of Errors Love¿s Labour¿s Lost A Midsummer Night¿s Dream The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise Called the Jew of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor Much Ado About Nothing As You Like It Twelfth Night, or What You Will Troilus and Cressida Measure for Measure All¿s Well That Ends Well The Two Noble Kinsmen Histories The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (2 Henry VI) The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York and the Good King Henry the Sixth (3 Henry VI) The First Part of Henry the Sixth The Tragedy of King Richard the Third The Tragedy of King Richard the Second The Life and Death of King John The History of Henry the Fourth (1 Henry IV) The Second Part of Henry the Fourth The Life of Henry the Fifth All Is True (Henry VIII) Tragedies Titus Andronicus The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet The Tragedy of Julius Caesar The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice The Life of Timon of Athens The History of King Lear: The Quarto Text The Tragedy of King Lear: The Folio Text The Tragedy of King Lear: A Conflated Text The Tragedy of Macbeth The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra The Tragedy of Coriolanus Romances Pericles, Prince of Tyre The Winter¿s Tale Cymbeline, King of Britain Tempest Poetry Venus and Adonis The Rape of Lucrece The Sonnets and ¿A Lover¿s Complaint¿ Various Poems Lost Plays Love¿s Labour¿s Won: A Brief Account Cardenio: A Brief Account
Subjects: Classics, performing arts, English drama, tragicomedy, Drama, Survival after airplane accidents
