The Works of Christopher Marlowe

The Jew of Malta

Character By Act Matrix/Character by Scene Matrix
Character 1 2 3 4 5 Total
Barabas 339 308 86 189 192 1114
1. MerchantMerchant 15 15
2. Merchant. 9 9
1. Jew 18 18
2. Jew 12 12
3. Jew 2 2
Governor 61 20 41 95 217
Basso 4 15 19
Calymath 18 67 85
Officer 5 5
1. Knight 15 5 6 26
2. Knight 2 2
Reader 3 3
Abigall 43 34 72 149
1. Fryar 12 17 33 62
Abbasse 8 8
2. Fryar 2 21 16 39
Mathias 22 22 3 47
Lodowicke 10 38 1 49
Bosco 31 1 32
1. Officer 10 3 13
2. Officer 3 3
Slave 4 4
Ithimore 23 46 94 3 166
Mater 4 9 3 16
Curtezane 14 34 6 54
Pilia-borza 6 53 1 60
Within 1 1
Messenger 23 23
Servant 1 1
Carpenter 1 1
Total: 598 502 332 419 402 2253

Notes: Scene totals may be less then then the sum of character lines due combined speech. The original source may be found here. As little alteration as possible was made to the source, though obvious formatting errors were corrected. Charactar assigntations for group speech (ALL etc.) are my own however. In cases of ambiguity, I include all characters in the scene. Line counts may not always be an accurate indication of length, as prose speeches are counted as a single line. Be aware that characters who appear in a scene without speaking parts are not represented in the grid above.