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Shakespeare’s Greatest Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Greatest Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Shakespeare’s Greatest Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest audiobook runs 13.4 hours unabridged, narrated by Erin Bateman and Rafe Beckley and others (about 8.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

13.4listening hrs
Theatre & Radiostore shelf
2021released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 13.4 hours of listening.

Days to finish Shakespeare’s Greatest Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day27 days
1 hour / day14 days
2 hours / day7 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×9 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 13.4 hours, it runs longer than 99% 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’s Greatest Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest is an audiobook by William Shakespeare: a 13.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Erin Bateman, Rafe Beckley and Edward James Beesley and others, released November 23, 2021, on the Theatre & Radio shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
13.4 hrs
Narrated by
Erin Bateman, Rafe Beckley, Edward James Beesley, Randal Schaffer
Released
November 23, 2021
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Theatre & Radio
ISBN
9781662258626

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Shakespeare’s Greatest Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest audiobook?

Shakespeare’s Greatest Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest runs 13.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.9 hours.

Is the Shakespeare’s Greatest Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Shakespeare’s Greatest Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest?

Shakespeare’s Greatest Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest is narrated by Erin Bateman, Rafe Beckley, Edward James Beesley and Randal Schaffer.

Is Shakespeare’s Greatest Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.9 hours, saving 4.5 hours.