To understand the absurdity of the promise the troupe of three makes to cover all of Shakespeare’s plays, consider the stats that literary wonks have made so readily available. It takes roughly one hour to perform 1,000 lines of a Shakespeare play. The average number of lines in a Shakespeare play ranges from 2,752 lines, if you use the Cambridge edition of his works, to 2,864 lines for the Globe edition. Which means any one play, on average, takes between…
