
William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays (10 tragedies, 10 histories, 17 comedies) and 154 Sonnets — 884,647 words in all.
He is said to have invented 1,700 words in the English language, including
addiction
assassination
courtship
eyeball
luggage
impartial
swagger
tranquil
The Causes of Death in Shakespeare’s Tragedies:
64 violent deaths in Shakespeare:
33 stabbed
7 poisoned
5 beheaded
2 broken hearts
2 hangings
2 baked into a pie
1 drowned
1 smothered by a pillow
1 lack of sleep
1 drops dead
1 snake bite
1 torn apart by mob
1 Eating hot coals
1 “disappearing”
1 thrown into a fire
1 indigestion
1 buried to neck and starved
1 cut into pieces
1 throws himself away
1 eaten by bear


Number of books sold
~ 4 billion
Number of films made
1,875 movie credits, plus 48 not yet release, including 420 feature films and TV-movie versions of complete Shakespeare scripts.
Hamlet: 79 versions
Romeo and Juliet: 52
Macbeth: 36
The above information was collected from the following sources:
- http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/words/how-many-words-are-there-in-the-english-language
- http://rappers.mdaniels.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/
- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/books/chapters/chapter-shakespeare.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
- http://io9.com/an-infographic-that-keeps-track-of-all-of-shakespeares-1534516437
- http://www.shakespeareinamericanlife.org/resources/viewing/inspired.cfm
- http://www.buzzfeed.com/louispeitzman/movies-you-might-not-know-were-based-on-shakespeare-plays#.qkEyX1YAr
- http://news.moviefone.com/2013/06/05/movies-you-didnt-know-were-based-on-shakespeare/#slide=4486
- http://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-faq
- http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/wordsinvented.htm
Guinness Book of World Records
Internet Movie Database
But Shakespeare is best appreciated for his words, not the numbers.