The Tempest — by the numbers
plays with only 9 scenes
The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love’s Labour’s Lost
plays categorized as “Romances”
The Tempest, Cymbeline, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale
plays with plots original to Shakespeare
The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merry Wives of Windsor
plays with an epilogue
The Tempest, All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, Henry IV Part 2, Henry VIII, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pericles,
The Two Noble Kinsmen, Twelfth Night
plays first printed in the First Folio of 1623
The Tempest, All’s Well That Ends Well, Antony & Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, Cymbeline, Henry VI Part 1, Henry
VIII, Julius Caesar, King John, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew, Timon of Athens, Twelfth Night,
Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Winter’s Tale
Where The Tempest ranks:
play for which the most satellites are named
(7: Ariel, Miranda, Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero, Serebos, Stephano)
most dominating role: (Prospero—32%)
1- Hamlet 2-Timon 3-Macbeth 4– Henry V 5-Richard III
longest scene (1.2, with 502 lines)
most filmed play (15, tie with Richard III)
(1– Romeo, 2– Hamlet, 3-Othello, 4-Taming of the Shrew 5-Macbeth 6-Julius Caesar 7-Midsummer Night’s Dream
longest male role: (Prospero—656 lines)
largest percentage of lines in prose (24%)
most produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company
(45 productions)
play with the most unique words (3149)
longest play
only Comedy of Errors has fewer lines