Book · by William Shakespeare · first published 1876
How many pages is Plays?
Plays by William Shakespeare has a median of 909 pages across 54 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 889 to 985 pages.
How long will Plays take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Pages by format
Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.
| Format | Median pages | Editions | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 954 | 7 | 18 h 22 min |
| Paperback | 768 | 2 | 14 h 47 min |
Editions counted
The 54 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 16 more editions were set aside because the page count was less than half or more than 2.2 times the median, which usually means an abridged text, an omnibus, or a typing error. Open Library lists 256 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | University of Michigan Library | Paperback | 616 | OL11868011M |
| 2001 | Applause | – | 1,077 | OL21085901M |
| 2000 | Applause Books | Hardcover | 1,200 | OL8602158M |
| 1998 | Routledge | – | 907 | OL352555M |
| 1998 | Hyperion Books | Paperback | 920 | OL11958866M |
| 1997 | Routledge | Library Binding | 993 | OL10187183M |
| 1997 | Routledge | Library Binding | 954 | OL10187184M |
| 1996 | W.W. Norton | – | 928 | OL981447M |
| 1995 | Applause | – | 896 | OL1090878M |
| 1988 | Oxford University Press, USA | – | 1,486 | OL7396522M |
| 1987 | Oxford University Press | – | 1,020 | OL14472124M |
| 1987 | W W Norton & Co Inc | – | 928 | OL7452429M |
| 1987 | Oxford University Press | – | 452 | OL14472111M |
| 1972 | AMS Press | – | 960 | OL5282719M |
| 1968 | W.W. Norton | – | 928 | OL25070026M |
| 1968 | W. W. Norton | – | 928 | OL5542671M |
| 1968 | Hamlyn | – | 928 | OL20329446M |
| 1968 | Yale University Press | Hardcover | 889 | OL16675546M |
| 1968 | W. W. Norton | – | 928 | OL24788174M |
| 1968 | W. W. Norton | – | 928 | OL24787320M |
| 1963 | Yale University Press | – | 889 | OL13536747M |
| 1955 | Yale University Press | Hardcover | 889 | OL16790313M |
| 1955 | – | – | 889 | OL14057381M |
| 1955 | Oxford U.P. | – | 889 | OL19532357M |
| 1954 | Yale University Press | – | 889 | OL14075495M |
| 1954 | Yale University Press | – | 889 | OL21469528M |
| 1954 | Yale University Press | – | 889 | OL21025940M |
| 1909 | Methuen | Hardcover | 419 | OL13988359M |
| 1902 | The Clarendon Press | – | 908 | OL19352302M |
| 1902 | Clarendon Press | – | 908 | OL25608464M |
| 1902 | The Clarendon Press | – | 908 | OL21345093M |
| 1902 | Clarendon Press | – | 908 | OL20867166M |
| 1902 | Clarendon press | – | 908 | OL14629996M |
| 1887 | The University Society | – | 419 | OL20889228M |
| 1876 | Chatto and Windus | – | 993 | OL24648853M |
| 1876 | Chatto and Windus | Hardcover | 993 | OL24659561M |
| 1876 | T. Nelson and Sons | – | 1,421 | OL19225080M |
| 1866 | Day? | – | 993 | OL17367000M |
| 1864 | Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount | – | 889 | OL6574075M |
| 1864 | Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount | – | 889 | OL14674029M |
| 1864 | Lionel Booth | – | 993 | OL14565295M |
| 1855 | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans | – | 910 | OL18001403M |
| 1847 | Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans | – | 910 | OL25302936M |
| 1847 | Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans | – | 910 | OL7179852M |
| 1807 | Printed by E. and J. Wright | – | 993 | OL17362711M |
| 1790 | Printed for J. Stockdale | – | 1,078 | OL24611574M |
| 1784 | Printed for John Stockdale | – | 1,079 | OL20538746M |
| 1663 | Printed [by Roger Daniel, Alice Warren, and John Hayes] for | – | 877 | OL25668653M |
| 1641 | Printed by Tho Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to be sold a | – | 419 | OL25678619M |
| 1632 | Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to be fold | – | 419 | OL25668652M |
| 1623 | Printed by Isaac Iaggard and Ed. Blount | Leather-bound | 993 | OL623910M |
| – | Guild Publishing | – | 568 | OL16168367M |
| – | Guild Publishing | – | 452 | OL16168356M |
| – | YaleUniversity Press | – | 889 | OL23754803M |
More by William Shakespeare
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All 23 books by William Shakespeare with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is Plays?
- About 909 pages: that is the median of 54 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 419 to 1,486 pages.
- How long does it take to read Plays?
- About 17 h 30 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 36 days.
- How many words is Plays?
- Roughly 250,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.
Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).