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Shakespeare: The Comedies: Featuring All 13 of William Shakespeare’s Comedic Plays by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare: The Comedies: Featuring All 13 of William Shakespeare’s Comedic Plays: Audiobook

Part of Argo Classics

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Shakespeare: The Comedies: Featuring All 13 of William Shakespeare’s Comedic Plays audiobook runs 37.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Roy Dotrice and Ian McKellen and others (about 25.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

37.6listening hrs
Theatre & Radiostore shelf
2020released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 37.6 hours of listening.

Days to finish Shakespeare: The Comedies: Featuring All 13 of William Shakespeare’s Comedic Plays at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day76 days
1 hour / day38 days
2 hours / day19 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×26 days

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What our data says

  • At 37.6 hours, it runs longer than 100% of the 2,498 Theatre & Radio audiobooks in our catalog.

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

Shakespeare: The Comedies: Featuring All 13 of William Shakespeare’s Comedic Plays is an audiobook by William Shakespeare: a 37.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Roy Dotrice, Ian McKellen and Prunella Scales and others, released December 3, 2020, on the Theatre & Radio shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
37.6 hrs
Narrated by
Roy Dotrice, Ian McKellen, Prunella Scales, Derek Jacobi
Released
December 3, 2020
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Theatre & Radio
Series
Argo Classics
ISBN
9780008462031

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Shakespeare: The Comedies: Featuring All 13 of William Shakespeare’s Comedic Plays audiobook?

Shakespeare: The Comedies: Featuring All 13 of William Shakespeare’s Comedic Plays runs 37.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 25.1 hours.

Is the Shakespeare: The Comedies: Featuring All 13 of William Shakespeare’s Comedic Plays audiobook free?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates Shakespeare: The Comedies: Featuring All 13 of William Shakespeare’s Comedic Plays?

Shakespeare: The Comedies: Featuring All 13 of William Shakespeare’s Comedic Plays is narrated by Roy Dotrice, Ian McKellen, Prunella Scales and Derek Jacobi.

Is Shakespeare: The Comedies: Featuring All 13 of William Shakespeare’s Comedic Plays worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 25.1 hours, saving 12.5 hours.