Shakespeare's plays,
listed by number of words

List plays by genre title speech count date

Total words in all plays: 835,997
Total plays: 37
Average per play: 22,595

Words	Play	Genre
30,557	Hamlet	Tragedy
29,278	Richard III	History
27,589	Coriolanus	Tragedy
27,565	Cymbeline	Tragedy
26,450	Othello	Tragedy
26,145	King Lear	Tragedy
26,119	Henry V	History
26,089	Troilus and Cressida	Tragedy
25,689	Henry IV, Part II	History
25,439	Henry VI, Part II	History
24,914	Winter's Tale	Comedy
24,905	Antony and Cleopatra	Tragedy
24,629	Henry VIII	History
24,579	Henry IV, Part I	History
24,545	Romeo and Juliet	Tragedy
24,294	Henry VI, Part III	History
23,009	All's Well That Ends Well	Comedy
22,423	Richard II	History
21,845	Merry Wives of Windsor	Comedy
21,780	Measure for Measure	Comedy
21,690	As You Like It	Comedy
21,607	Henry VI, Part I	History
21,459	Love's Labour's Lost	Comedy
21,291	Merchant of Venice	Comedy
21,157	Much Ado about Nothing	Comedy
21,055	Taming of the Shrew	Comedy
20,772	King John	History
20,743	Titus Andronicus	Tragedy
19,837	Twelfth Night	Comedy
19,703	Julius Caesar	Tragedy
18,529	Pericles	History
18,216	Timon of Athens	Tragedy
17,129	Two Gentlemen of Verona	Comedy
17,121	Macbeth	Tragedy
16,633	Tempest	Comedy
16,511	Midsummer Night's Dream	Comedy
14,701	Comedy of Errors	Comedy