An Interesting fact about The Complete Works of
William Shakespeare, is that the entire collection of
poetry,
comedies,
tragedies, and
histories weighs in at a mere 5.53
megabytes of data.
Broken down by type:
% du -k
2248 ./comedies
1569 ./histories
266 ./poetry
1521 ./tragedies
5664 .
Shakespeare's entire works can be downloaded at ftp://rsug.itd.umich.edu/shakespeare or as a tarred zip file from ftp://rsug.itd.umich.edu/pub/users/cmessina/shakespeare.tar.gz