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Which is the shortest Shakespearean play?

By Amanda Mabillard, About.com

Question: Which is the shortest Shakespearean play?

Answer: With 1,787 lines and 14,369 words, The Comedy of Errors is the shortest Shakespearean play (based on the first edition of The Riverside Shakespeare (1974)). Note that Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy.

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