| Play | characters | total lines |
|---|---|---|
| All’s Well That Ends Well | 24 | 2173 |
| Antony and Cleopatra | 66 | 3429 |
| As You Like It | 27 | 1794 |
| The Comedy of Errors | 20 | 1666 |
| Coriolanus | 61 | 3392 |
| Cymbeline | 42 | 3408 |
| Double Falsehood | 22 | 1771 |
| Edward III | 52 | 2483 |
| Hamlet | 33 | 3445 |
| Henry IV, Part 1 | 36 | 2213 |
| Henry IV, Part 2 | 55 | 2252 |
| Henry V | 49 | 2418 |
| Henry VI, Part 1 | 65 | 2695 |
| Henry VI, Part 2 | 83 | 2824 |
| Henry VI, Part 3 | 57 | 2916 |
| Henry VIII | 76 | 3181 |
| Julius Caesar | 51 | 2547 |
| King John | 28 | 2647 |
| King Lear | 29 | 3014 |
| King Richard II | 39 | 2803 |
| Love’s Labour’s Lost | 23 | 2292 |
| Macbeth | 43 | 2398 |
| Measure for Measure | 25 | 2234 |
| The Merchant of Venice | 23 | 2285 |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | 25 | 1337 |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 24 | 1940 |
| Much Ado About Nothing | 23 | 1530 |
| Othello | 24 | 3139 |
| Pericles | 60 | 2243 |
| Richard III | 63 | 3652 |
| Romeo and Juliet | 37 | 2886 |
| Sir Thomas More | 63 | 2175 |
| The Taming of the Shrew | 36 | 2375 |
| The Tempest | 19 | 2064 |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | 18 | 2005 |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | 46 | 3162 |
| The Winter’s Tale | 36 | 2786 |
| Timon of Athens | 50 | 2236 |
| Titus Andronicus | 32 | 2522 |
| Troilus and Cressida | 36 | 2973 |
| Twelfth Night | 18 | 1703 |
Based on this Complete Shakespeare character list