Shakespeare Statistics
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| Longest Play |
Hamlet: 4024 lines |
| Shortest Play |
Comedy of Errors: 1786 lines |
| Longest Leading Role |
Hamlet: 1495 lines |
| Shortest Leading Role |
Bottom, A Midsummer NIght's Dream: 261 lines |
| Longest Female Role |
Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra, 686 lines |
| Bloodiest Play |
Titus Andronicus: 14 characters die; one every 180 lines |
| Plays in which men are disguised as women or women as men |
6: A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Cymbeline, Merchant of Venice, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night |
| Character who appears in most plays |
Falstaff - in three plays: Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part II, Merry Wives of Windsor; also mentioned in Henry V |
