The Works of Christopher Marlowe

The Jew of Malta

Character By Act Matrix/Character by Scene Matrix
Characters 1 2 3 4 5 Total
1 2 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5
Barabas 153 186 48 260 4 82 123 49 17 42 86 64 1114
1. MerchantMerchant 15 15
2. Merchant. 9 9
1. Jew 9 9 18
2. Jew 7 5 12
3. Jew 1 1 2
Governor 61 20 20 21 23 23 8 41 217
Basso 4 15 19
Calymath 18 8 16 25 18 85
Officer 5 5
1. Knight 15 5 2 3 1 26
2. Knight 2 2
Reader 3 3
Abigall 43 20 14 48 24 149
1. Fryar 12 10 7 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 3 18 25 27 42 25 3 166
Mater 4 9 3 16
Curtezane 14 20 14 6 54
Pilia-borza 6 26 13 14 1 60
Within 1 1
Messenger 20 3 23
Servant 1 1
Carpenter 1 1
Total: 194 404 68 56 378 23 38 76 107 36 52 199 88 62 70 92 125 45 11 129 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.