How many pages is Hamlet?

About 188 pages, though editions of a book this old vary a great deal — which is why its reading time comes from the complete text instead: 30,209 words, about 2 hrs of reading at an average pace.

Is Hamlet worth reading?

What we can tell you for certain is the cost: 188 pages and about 2 hrs of your time, or 1½ hrs if you read quickly. Whether that is worth it depends on the hours you have.

How long is the Hamlet audiobook?

About 3½ hrs, estimated from the 30,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

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Hamlet

Name: Hamlet
Author: William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

2 hrsto read

—not scored

At your speed≈ 2 hrs

Pages188

Audiobook≈ 3½ hrs

Times shown for 250 words a minute (average)

The complete text runs to 30,209 words, counted word for word. At an average 250 words a minute that is 2 hrs — a day's reading.

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How long does it take to read Hamlet?

The complete text of Hamlet runs to 30,209 words — about 188 pages in the edition we list. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for Hamlet at three reading speeds.
Your pace	Words per minute	Time to finish
Slow	175	3 hrs
Average	250	2 hrs
Fast	400	1½ hrs

Counted word for word from the complete public-domain text on Project Gutenberg, so these times don't depend on any one edition's page count. Most adults read between 200 and 300 words a minute — set your own pace and every time on the site adjusts. Prefer to listen? At a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute the audiobook runs about 3½ hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.

Common questions

How long does it take to read Hamlet?: About 2 hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. The complete text of Hamlet runs to 30,209 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 3 hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 1½ hrs.
How many pages is Hamlet?: About 188 pages, though editions of a book this old vary a great deal — which is why its reading time comes from the complete text instead: 30,209 words, about 2 hrs of reading at an average pace.
Is Hamlet worth reading?: What we can tell you for certain is the cost: 188 pages and about 2 hrs of your time, or 1½ hrs if you read quickly. Whether that is worth it depends on the hours you have.
How long is the Hamlet audiobook?: About 3½ hrs, estimated from the 30,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

From Open Library

In this quintessential Shakespeare tragedy, a young prince's halting pursuit of revenge for the murder of his father unfolds in a series of highly charged confrontations that have held audiences spellbound for nearly four centuries.…

Those fateful exchanges, and the anguished soliloquies that precede and follow them, probe depths of human feeling rarely sounded in any art. The title role of Hamlet, perhaps the most demanding in all of Western drama, has provided generations of leading actors their greatest challenge. Yet all the roles in this towering drama are superbly delineated, and each of the key scenes offers actors a rare opportunity to create theatrical magic. Hamlet is a unique pleasure to read as well as to see and hear performed.

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