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, 6 poems, sonnets]: Which Should You Read?

Both live on shelves: Performing Arts, Courtship, English drama, Classics, Drama, Fiction

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets] William Shakespeare · 1730 ★★★★☆ 3.7 2364 pages · ≈ 43 h 47 m · Demanding Find on Amazon

The verdict

Readers rate 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) higher: 4.0 vs 3.7 from 5 votes.
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) is the quicker read — about 20 hours vs 43 for Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets].