| | [[William Shakespeare]] wrote 17 comedies, 10 tragedies, and 10 historical plays, The length of Shakespeare's plays range from 1785 lines for ''The Comedy of Errors'' to 4030 lines for ''Hamlet''.<ref>http://www.stagemilk.com/length-of-shakespeare-plays/</ref> Generally 1000 lines corresponds to about 1 hour of performance time. There are a total of 884,421 words in the 43 works authored by Shakespeare. | | [[William Shakespeare]] wrote 17 comedies, 10 tragedies, and 10 historical plays, The length of Shakespeare's plays range from 1785 lines for ''The Comedy of Errors'' to 4030 lines for ''Hamlet''.<ref>http://www.stagemilk.com/length-of-shakespeare-plays/</ref> Generally 1000 lines corresponds to about 1 hour of performance time. There are a total of 884,421 words in the 43 works authored by Shakespeare. |
| | His best-known plays include ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1595), ''Julius Caesar'' (1599), ''Hamlet'' (1602), ''Othello'' (1603), ''Timon of Athens'' (1604), ''King Lear'' (1605), ''Macbeth'' (1606), ''Anthony and Cleopatra'' (1607), ''Coriolanus'' (1610), ''The Comedy of Errors'' (1591), ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1593), ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona'' (1594), ''Love's Labour's Lost'' (1595), ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (1596), ''The Merchant of Venice'' (1597), ''Much Ado About Nothing'' (1598), ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' (1599), ''As You Like It'' (1600), ''Twelfth Night'' (1600), ''Troilus and Cressida'' (1601), ''All's Well That Ends Well'' (1602), ''Measure for Measure'' (1603), ''Pericles'' (1606), ''Cymbeline'' (1609), ''The Winter's Tale'' (1610), ''The Tempest'' (1611), ''Henry VI: Part I'' (1589), ''Henry VI: Part II'' (1590), ''Henry VI: Part III'' (1591), ''Richard III'' (1593), ''Richard II'' (1595), ''King John'' (1607), ''Henry IV: Part I'' (1597), ''Henry IV: Part I'' (1598), ''Henry V'' (1599), and ''Henry VIII'' (1612).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall, New York: 1991.</ref> | | His best-known plays include ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1595), ''Julius Caesar'' (1599), ''Hamlet'' (1602), ''Othello'' (1603), ''Timon of Athens'' (1604), ''King Lear'' (1605), ''Macbeth'' (1606), ''Anthony and Cleopatra'' (1607), ''Coriolanus'' (1610), ''The Comedy of Errors'' (1591), ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1593), ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona'' (1594), ''Love's Labour's Lost'' (1595), ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (1596), ''The Merchant of Venice'' (1597), ''Much Ado About Nothing'' (1598), ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' (1599), ''As You Like It'' (1600), ''Twelfth Night'' (1600), ''Troilus and Cressida'' (1601), ''All's Well That Ends Well'' (1602), ''Measure for Measure'' (1603), ''Pericles'' (1606), ''Cymbeline'' (1609), ''The Winter's Tale'' (1610), ''The Tempest'' (1611), ''Henry VI: Part I'' (1589), ''Henry VI: Part II'' (1590), ''Henry VI: Part III'' (1591), ''Richard III'' (1593), ''Richard II'' (1595), ''King John'' (1607), ''Henry IV: Part I'' (1597), ''Henry IV: Part I'' (1598), ''Henry V'' (1599), and ''Henry VIII'' (1612).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall, New York: 1991.</ref> |