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Complete Works of Shakespeare

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Complete Works of Shakespeare

37 plays, 154 sonnets, and about 880,000 words/Literature & Writing

William Shakespeare's complete works comprise 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and several longer poems totaling about 880,000 words. He invented roughly 1,700 words that are still in common use, including 'eyeball,' 'bedroom,' and 'assassination.' The complete text fits comfortably on a floppy disk.

Measurements

Text content5 million B
17,857Tweets
1.25Downloaded MP3s

About 5 MB plain text

Weight (single-volume edition)1.36 kg
439 millionthsTesla Cybertrucks
7.56Navel oranges
1.6Chipotle bowls
Book height2.3 tenths m
2 thousandthsSki jump hills
7.1 hundredthsHammock lengths
1.5 hundredthsShuffleboard courts
Spine thickness6 hundredths m
200Grains of salt
32.7 millionthsBrooklyn Bridge lengths
12 millioniPhone transistors
Age of works (as of 2026)13.3 billion s
63.1 millionPop songs
22.1 millionCar washes
1.5 millionMarvel movies

About 420 years since first plays

Total performance time (all plays)356,400 s
1,980Commercial breaks
356 millionCamera shutters
108 octillionTime light crosses a proton

About 99 hours

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