SHAKESPEARE PLAYS IN ORDER OF LENGTH

 

 

The plays of William Shakespeare placed in line length from shortest to longest. Use our Fact Sheet for the length of Shakespeare's plays in number of lines. Find out the shortest play and the longest play.

              

SHAKESPEARE PLAYS IN LINE LENGTH ORDER

Shakespeare's Plays in line length order from shortest to longest

We have based our line counts on The Complete Works of William Shakespeare edited by W.J. Craig

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                            The Comedy of Errors     1787 lines               Much Ado About Nothing     2871 lines

                                  The Tempest      2086 lines                                 As You Like It     2884 lines

                                          Macbeth     2113 lines               All's Well That Ends Well     2985 lines 

           A Midsummer Night's Dream     2186 lines           The Merry Wives of Windsor    3044  lines

       The Two Gentlemen of Verona     2303 lines                           Romeo and Juliet    3058  lines

                               Timon of Athens    2390 lines                    Antony and Cleopatra     3068 lines

                                           Pericles     2454 lines                            The Winter's Tale    3089  lines

                                   Julius Caesar     2459 lines                              Henry VI Part II     3165 lines

                              Titus Andronicus     2522 lines                               Henry IV Part 1    3191  lines

                                         King John    2576 lines                The Two Noble Kinsmen     3220 lines

                 The Taming of the Shrew   2656  lines                                           Othello     3323 lines

                  The Merchant of Venice    2669  lines                                       King Lear     3343 lines

                                Henry VI Part 1     2677 lines                                      Cymbeline    3350  lines

                                   Twelfth Night     2711 lines                                         Henry V     3403 lines

                                         Richard II    2756  lines                                     Coriolanus    3417  lines

                        Love's Labour's Lost     2800 lines                              Henry IV Part 2     3459 lines

                                Henry VI Part 3    2809  lines                       Troilus and Cressida    3505  lines

                                        Henry VIII     2820 lines                                      Richard III     3609 lines

                       Measure for Measure    2838 lines                                           Hamlet     3951 lines

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