The longest
scene in
Shakespeare is
Hamlet: Act I, Scene I.
In
Real Time, it only goes for
about fifteen minutes. In the
play, it goes from
midnight till
daybreak.
Note that
Bernardo says
'Tis now struck twelve,
that is, it is now midnight.
Later in the
scene, the
cock crows, which
Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat /
Awake the god of day.