Along with varying word counts and numerous locations, William Shakespeare's plays also have wide ranging numbers of characters in each play. The range in the number of characters with spoken parts in Shakespeare's plays is as little as 17, in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, to as much as sixty, in Henry VI: Part Two. There is an average of almost 34 characters per play.
There is some correlation between the word count, number of speeches and number of characters, as the majority of plays that have above-average word counts are also above average in the other graphs, although this correlation is not very strong as there is no play that is in the top five of these three lists, and only one play (The Comedy of Errors) is in the bottom five of all three lists.