Literary Criticism/Shakespeare Statistics

Shakespeare Statistics

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