Table 3 Gender of characters
From: Adverbial clauses and speaker and interlocutor gender in Shakespeare’s plays
Character gender | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|
Comedies | 40 (22.86%) | 135 (77.14%) |
Histories | 40 (8.39%) | 438 (91.63%) |
Comedies and histories combined | 80 (12.25%) | 573 (87.75%) |
