Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1911 — Some Shakespeare Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Some Shakespeare Statistics.

A Shakespearean enthusiast with a turn for statistics has discovered that the plays contain 106,007 lines and 814,780 yords. “Hamlet” is the longest play, with 3,930 lnies, and' the '“Comedy of Errors” the shortest, with 1,777 lines. Altogether the plays contain 1,227 characters, of which 157 are females. The longest part is that of Hamlet. The part with the longest Vord in It is that of Costard in “Love’s Labor Lost,” who tells Moth that he Is “not so long by the head as honor!ficabilitudinitatibus.”