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The Comedies (All's Well That Ends Well / As You Like It / Comedy of Errors / Love's Labour's Lost / Measure for Measure / Merchant of Venice / Merry Wives of Windsor / Midsummer Night's Dream / Much Ado About Nothing / Taming of the Shrew / Tempest / Twelfth Night / Two Gentlemen of Verona / Winter's Tale) vs Works [37 plays, 5 poems, sonnets]: Which Should You Read?

Cover of The Comedies (All's Well That Ends Well / As You Like It / Comedy of Errors / Love's Labour's Lost / Measure for Measure / Merchant of Venice / Merry Wives of Windsor / Midsummer Night's Dream / Much Ado About Nothing / Taming of the Shrew / Tempest / Twelfth Night / Two Gentlemen of Verona / Winter's Tale) The Comedies (All's Well That Ends Well / As You Like It / Comedy of Errors / Love's Labour's Lost / Measure for Measure / Merchant of Venice / Merry Wives of Windsor / Midsummer Night's Dream / Much Ado About Nothing / Taming of the Shrew / Tempest / Twelfth Night / Two Gentlemen of Verona / Winter's Tale) William Shakespeare · 1847 ★★★★☆ 4.0 1101 pages · ≈ 20 h 23 m · Demanding Find on Amazon
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Cover of Works [37 plays, 5 poems, sonnets] Works [37 plays, 5 poems, sonnets] William Shakespeare · 1794 1376 pages · ≈ 25 h 29 m · Demanding Find on Amazon

The verdict

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The Comedies (All's Well That Ends Well / As You Like It / Comedy of Errors / Love's Labour's Lost / Measure for Measure / Merchant of Venice / Merry Wives of Windsor / Midsummer Night's Dream / Much Ado About Nothing / Taming of the Shrew / Tempest / Twelfth Night / Two Gentlemen of Verona / Winter's Tale)Works [37 plays, 5 poems, sonnets]DifficultyInfluencePopularityClassic
Mistaken IdentitiesRejectionJuvenile dramaComedyPerforming ArtsCourtship