KIDS QUIZ
FAMOUS AUTHORS AND THEIR BOOKS
Question
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Macbeth
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Hamlet
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Romeo and Juliet
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -What we know is that Elizabethan performances lasted about two hours. Hamlet is quite a bit longer than the average, and at 4, 000 lines it is Shakespeare’s longest play.
Detailed explanation-3: -Running time approximately 3 hours and 15 minutes (including two 20-minute intervals).
Detailed explanation-4: -The longest scene in Hamlet is 2.2 (or the seventh scene of the play, if we ignore act divisions). It is the longest by some way: its 600-odd lines are around 200 more than the next longest scene (the final one).