Tables of Comparative Analysis for The Two Noble Kinsmen

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Table 1: Classification of the "Rarer" Words in the Plays Named.
Table adapted from: Hart, Alfred. "Shakespeare and the Vocabulary of The Two Noble Kinsmen. Review of English Studies 10 (1934): 274-87.
Play 1
No. of lines in play or portion 		2
No. of words peculiar to play or portion (%) 		3
No. of words found in one other play of Shakespeare (%) 		4
No. of words found in two other plays (%) 		5
No. of words found in three other plasy (%) 		6
Total no. of rarer words (%)
Coriolanus 3279 7.4 4.2 3.6 3.0 18.1
Antony &
Cleopatra 		3016 7.7 5.0 3.5 2.4 18.5
Cymbeline 3264 6.7 4.0 3.2 2.9 16.9
Winter's Tale 2925 7.3 4.0 3.9 3.3 18.5
Tempest 2015 9.4 6.0 4.0 3.8 23.2
TNK 2772 6.8 3.9 3.3 2.7 16.6
A
(Shakespeare) 		1091 10.2 4.9 4.8 6.8 23.2
B
(Fletcher) 		1681 4.6 3.2 2.4 2.3 12.4

 

Table 2: Previously Unused Words Present in Plays Named.
Table adapted from: Hart, Alfred. "Shakespeare and the Vocabulary of The Two Noble Kinsmen. Review of English Studies 10 (1934): 274-87.
Plays 1
No. of lines in play or portion 		2
Total of words peculiar to play or portion 		3
Ratio of 2 to 1.
words:lines 		4
% of peculiar main words 		5
% of peculiar compounds based on 1 		6
% of compounds based on 2
Coliolanus 3279 242 1:13 ½ 6.2 1.2 16.1
Antony &
Cleopatra 		3016 231 1:13 5.9 1.8 23.4
Cymbeline 3264 219 1:15 4.7 2.1 30.6
Winter's Tale 2925 214 1:13¾ 5.1 2.2 30.0
Tempest 2015 190 1:10 ½ 5.8 3.7 39.0
TNK * 2772 188 1:14.7 4.1 2.7 39.9
A
(Shakespeare) 		1091 111 1:10 7.0 3.2 31.5
B
(Fletcher) 		1681 77 1:22 2.2 2.4 52.0

 

Table 3: Words New to our Literature
Table adapted from: Hart, Alfred. "Shakespeare and the Vocabulary of The Two Noble Kinsmen. Review of English Studies 10 (1934): 274-87.
Play 1
Words peculiar to play 		2
% of new main words 		3
% of new compounds 		4
% total of new words in 1 		5
% of new words repeated from earlier plays 		6
% total of new words 		7
Average of lines to one new word
Coriolanus 242 2.4 13.2 37.6 8.3 45.9 29½
Antony &
Cleopatra 		231 22.5 21.2 43.7 6.5 50.2 27
Cymbeline 219 17.8 25.1 42.9 12.8 55.7 27
Winter's Tale 214 15.0 23.8 38.8 7.9 46.7 20
Tempest 190 13.7 33.7 47.4 10.0 57.4 18½
TNK * 188 18.1 28.2 46.3 8.0 54.3 64
A (Shakespeare) 111 24.3 27.0 51.4 8.1 59.5 17
B (Fletcher) 77 9.1 29.9 39.0 7.8 46.8 47

 

Table 4: Distribution of Words Beginning with "un-"
Table adapted from: Hart, Alfred. "Shakespeare and the Vocabulary of The Two Noble Kinsmen. Review of English Studies 10 (1934): 274-87.  
Play
Total no. of words
% no. used for the first time
% "new" words
2 Henry VI
34
82.4
20.6
Romeo and Juliet
44
36.4
9.1
Richard II
52
42.3
15.4
1 Henry IV
39
23.1
10.3
Twelfth Night
33
51.5
21.2
Hamlet
71
49.3
23.9
Lear
55
38.2
18.2
Coriolanus
48
47.9
16.7
Tempest
20
30.0
15.0
TNK *
27
37.0
25.9
A (Shakespeare)
19
52.6
36.8
B (Fletcher)
8
0
0

 

  • By A and B Hart means those sections of the play which he has decided belong to either Shakespeare:
    Act 1; Act 3, Scene 1; and Act 5 (except Scene 2),
    or Fletcher: the remainder.

  • For tables 2, 3, and 4, Hart supplies no figures for The Two Noble Kinsmen as an entire play, therefore I have extrapolated the data from those figures given for the two "seperate" sections of the play.

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