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The Plays

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  1. A Lover's Complaint,
  2. All's Well that Ends Well,
  3. amphibrach,
  4. anapest,
  5. antibaccius,
  6. Antony & Cleopatra,
  7. As You Like It,
  8. bacchius,
  9. Betrayal,
  10. Brooklyn Academy of Music,
  11. California Shakespeare Theater,
  12. Characters,
  13. Chicago Shakespeare Theater,
  14. Classic Stage Company,
  15. Comedic,
  16. Comedies,
  17. Comedy of Errors,
  18. Coriolanus,
  19. cretic,
  20. Cymbeline,
  21. dactyl,
  22. Dark Lady,
  23. Death,
  24. Donmar West End,
  25. Dramatic,
  26. Edward III,
  27. Elizabethan Theatres,
  28. Falstaff Awards,
  29. Female,
  30. First Folio,
  31. First Quarto,
  32. Friendship,
  33. Hamlet,
  34. Henry IV, Part 1,
  35. Henry IV, Part 2,
  36. Henry V,
  37. Henry VI, Part 1,
  38. Henry VI, Part 2,
  39. Henry VI, Part 3,
  40. Henry VIII,
  41. Histories,
  42. Honor,
  43. iamb,
  44. iambic pentameter,
  45. Illusion,
  46. Julius Caesar,
  47. Justice,
  48. King John,
  49. King Lear,
  50. King Richard II,
  51. Life,
  52. Love,
  53. Love's Labour's Lost,
  54. Lust,
  55. Macbeth,
  56. Male,
  57. Measure for Measure,
  58. Merchant of Venice,
  59. Merry Wives of Windsor,
  60. Middle Age,
  61. Midsummer Night's Dream,
  62. molossus,
  63. Much Ado About Nothing,
  64. News,
  65. Oregon Shakespeare Festival,
  66. Othello,
  67. Pericles,
  68. PlayShakespeare Editions,
  69. Podcasts,
  70. Poems,
  71. Pride,
  72. Public Theatre,
  73. pyrrhic,
  74. Revenge,
  75. Richard III,
  76. Romances,
  77. Romantic,
  78. Romeo & Juliet,
  79. Royal Shakespeare Company,
  80. scansion,
  81. Second Quarto,
  82. Shakespeare Talks,
  83. Shakespeare Theatre Company,
  84. Shakespeare's Players,
  85. Sir Thomas More,
  86. Sonnets,
  87. Sorrow,
  88. spondee,
  89. Statistics,
  90. Taming of the Shrew,
  91. The Passionate Pilgrim,
  92. The Phoenix & Turtle,
  93. The Rape of Lucrece,
  94. The Tempest,
  95. The Winter's Tale,
  96. Theatres,
  97. Timon of Athens,
  98. Titus Andronicus,
  99. To the Queen,
  100. Tragedies,
  101. tribrach,
  102. trochee,
  103. Troilus & Cressida,
  104. Twelfth Night,
  105. Two Gentlemen of Verona,
  106. Two Noble Kinsmen,
  107. Venus & Adonis,
  108. War,
  109. Weakness,
  110. Young Age,
  111. Young Man,

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Biggest Roles

The top 20 characters in Shakespeare's works by total number of lines for each play.

Role Play Role Lines
Hamlet Hamlet 1495
Richard Richard III 1171
Iago Othello 1098
King Henry V Henry V 1028
Coriolanus Coriolanus 897
Othello Othello 887
Timon Timon of Athens 865
Vicentio Measure for Measure 852
Mark Antony Antony and Cleopatra 851
King Lear King Lear 758
Richard II Richard II 758
Edward III Edward III 749
Marcus Brutus Julius Caesar 728
Titus Andronicus Titus Andronicus 723
Macbeth Macbeth 719
Leontes Winter's Tale 692
Cleopatra Antony and Cleopatra 686
Rosalind As You Like It 677
Prospero Tempest 674
Falstaff Henry IV, Part II 637


The top 20 characters in Shakespeare's works by percentage of lines in comparison to total number of lines for each play.

Role Play Role Percent
Hamlet Hamlet 37%
Timon Timon of Athens 34%
King Henry V Henry V 32%
Richard Richard III 31%
Iago Othello 31%
Vicentio Measure for Measure 30%
Prospero Tempest 30%
Macbeth Macbeth 29%
Edward III Edward III 29%
Titus Andronicus Titus Andronicus 28%
Marcus Brutus Julius Caesar 28%
Richard II Richard II 27%
Rosalind As You Like It 25%
Pericles Pericles 25%
Mark Antony Antony and Cleopatra 24%
Coriolanus Coriolanus 23%
Berowne Love's Labour's Lost 22%
Petruchio Taming of the Shrew 22%
Portia Merchant of Venice 22%
King Lear King Lear 22%



 
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