Table 4 Totals and proportions of words produced according to speaker gender, context and speaker gender combined with context
From: Adverbial clauses and speaker and interlocutor gender in Shakespeare’s plays
Ratio | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|
Female characters across contexts | 62,404/351,130 | 17.78% |
Male characters across contexts | 288,726/351,130 | 82.23% |
Single-gender across speakers | 217,071/351,130 | 61.82% |
Mixed-gender across speakers | 134,059/351,130 | 38.18% |
Female characters’ speech produced in single-gender context | 12,273/62,404 | 19.67% |
Female characters’ speech produced in mixed-gender context | 50,131/62,404 | 80.33% |
Male characters’ speech produced in single-gender context | 204,798/288,726 | 70.93% |
Male characters’ speech produced in mixed-gender context | 83,928/288,726 | 29.07% |
Single-gender speech produced by male characters | 204,798/217,071 | 94.35% |
Single-gender speech produced by female characters | 12,273/217,071 | 5.65% |
Mixed-gender speech produced by male characters | 82,823/134,059 | 61.78% |
Mixed-gender speech produced by female characters | 51,236/134,059 | 38.22% |
