[["The longest play is Hamlet, which is the only Shakespeare play with more than thirty thousand words, and the shortest is The Comedy of Errors, which is the only play with fewer than fifteen thousand words. Shakespeare's 37 plays have an average word count of 22.6 thousand words per play.", 48.0], ["The longest Shakespeare play is Hamlet, both the longest by number of words and lines. Richard III is second. The Folger Shakespeare edition has 4,167 lines. Other editions may vary. According to PlayShakespeare.com, at the rate of 1,000 lines per hour, Hamlet would take about 4 hours to perform.", 2.0]]
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