Which Shakespeare play has the most parts for women??

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Anyone know this off the top of their head - so that I don't have to look?

Well, I've had a quick google and I can't find out.

The female character with the most lines is Rosalind in AYLI - that any use to you?

moo - no not in the slightest use.

I'm still trying...can't find anything relevant. Have tried to find a list of Dramatis Personae by play but can't...

Possibly Midsummer Night's Dream??

midsummer night's dream?
I am guessing btw

Eeek - have just got my Complete Works from the bookshelf and my finals exam paper has has fallen out. It's all brown round the edges...I'm old.

Loves Labours seems ot have alot of women

how weird MOO

The Tempest - Miranda, Iris, Ceres, Juno and some nymphs.

Two Gentleman of verona - Julia, Silvia, Lucetta

Merry Wives of Windsor - Mistresses Ford and Page, Anne Page, Mistress Quickly.

Bored now.

much ado about nothing?

Measure for Measure: 5

Comedy of Errors: 5

Much Ado About Nothing: 4

Loves's Labours Lost: 5

Midsummer night's Dream: 4 and I don't know the genders of all the fairies (Pease Blossom, Cobweb, Moth and Mustard Seed)

Merchant of venice: 3

AYLI: 4 (and "a person representing Hymen")

Taming of the Shrew: 3

All's Well That Ends Well: 5

OK, have bedtime stories to read.

Trick question? All parts originally written for men (in frocks)...or are you looking for something with lots of female characters? Sorry - having a day of profound pedantry.

Possibly Macbeth - 7

Appears to be The Two Kinsmen

obscurity aside, it's the Romances, as you'd expect - Winter's Tale, Pericles ...

Nice question though. The interesting thing is the consistency - between 3 and 5 parts per play. Obviously connected to who they had available.

Off the top of my head I don't think any of them have more than five.

Ah - the most excellent Pericles has SIX, as has The Winter's Tale.

It is looking like one his last plays for you beety

X-posted with Mistress Binke

Macbeth has 6 i think!

Winter's Tale has 6.

I always thought that the Romances and their fascination with rejuvenation via the effect of young women (little girls, even) was about WS having a daughter. But maybe someone jolly exciting joined the company ...

that is very thought-provoking bink.
I know that I engage emotionally far more with the Romances now as a parent than I ever did as a teenager. I'm afraid in my callow youth I never really understood Hermione.

ah among my Many Theories is one about when you are allowed to engage with what Shakespeare.

Midsummer Night's Dream - any age from about 5
Romeo & Juliet - obvious. NB first reading by 16 at latest
Coriolanus - about 22. When you think you are cool and have got over your parents mucking up your life but you HAVEN'T
Antony & Cleopatra - well, just coming into that one now.

Bink, sometimes I think you are wasted in your job (although I am sure you are extremely good at it). You are a born educator IMO

So why did they persist in setting A & C for A Level in my day I wonder?