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- 21 8 Appendix
number of lines in each scene (Globe edition numbering) is as
follows: i. 1(326), 2(13), 3(114), 4(180); ii. 1(248), 2(329),
3(102); iii. 1(129), 2(93), 3(260), 4(ii5)» 5(155); iv. 1(87),
2(240), 3(14), 4(91), 5(132), 6(55) ; V. 1(32), 2(16), 3(25), 4(4),
5(259). Whole no. in the play, 3019.
Falstaff has more lines in the plays than any other character
except Henry V. In addition to the 488 lines in the present play,
Jack has 719 in i Henry IV. and 688 in 2 Henry IV., making 1895
lines in all. Henry, as Prince and King, has 616 lines in i Henry
IV., 308 in 2 Henry IV., and 1063 in Henry V, or 1987 Unes in
all — more than any other character in the plays. Henry IV. has
414 lines, as BoUngbroke, in Richard II., 341 in i Henry IV., and
294 in 2 Henry IV., or 1049 in all. Henry VI. has 179, 314, and
562, respectively, in the three plays in which he figures (I do not
count his Ghost in Richard III.), or 1055 in all. Margaret of
Anjou has the distinction of appearing in four plays, and of having
more lines than any other female character in Shakespeare : 33,
317, and 279, respectively, in the Henry VI. plays, and 218 in
Richard III., or 847 in all. Hamlet has 1569 lines, Richard III.
1 161 (with 24 in 2 Henry VI. and 390 in 3 Henry VI., or 1575 in
all), and lago 11 17. No other character has over 900 lines in any
one play ; and the only other important character figuring in more
than one is Mark Antony, who has 327 lines in /. C. and 829 in
A. and C, or 1156 in all. Many of the minor characters in the
English historical plays appear in more than one play, and some of
them have several hundred lines in the aggregate.
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