The Wolfram Alpha 'computational knowledge engine' has just taken on the complete works of Shakespeare, and here are some results from queries on the four great tragedies:
Hamlet:
- 32 characters
- most words spoken: Hamlet (11,631 words, 39.1%), Claudius (4097, 13.8%), Polonius (2668, 9%)
- 20 scenes
- 29,700 words
- 15.32 words - average sentence length
- longest words: transformation, unproportion'd
- most frequent two-word phrase: my Lord
Macbeth:
- 29 characters
- most words spoken: Macbeth (5494 words, 31.8%), Lady Macbeth (1942, 11.3%), Malcolm (1530, 8.9%)
- 27 scenes
- 17,260 words
- 13.1 words - average sentence length
- longest word:voluptuousness
- most frequent two-word phrase: I have
Othello:
- 25 characters
- most words spoken: Iago (8445 words, 32.4%), Othello (6256, 24%), Desdemona (2757, 10.6%)
- 15 scenes
- 26,078 words
- 13.18 words - average sentence length
- longest words: notwithstanding, disproportion'd, circumscription
- most frequent two-word phrase: I am
King Lear:
- 26 characters
- most words spoken: King Lear (5625 words, 21.9%), Edgar (2875, 11.2%), Kent (2611, 10.2%) [the first woman to appear is Regan at 8th].
- 20 scenes
- 29,700 words
- 12.55 words - average sentence length
- longest word: superserviceable
- most frequent two-word phrase: my lord.
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