2 | 26.5 | 43.3 | 77.5 | 99
Cor. | 3392 | 829 | 2521 | 42 | 28.4 | 45.9 | 79.0 | 104
Cym. | 3448 | 638 | 2505 | 107 | 30.7 | 46.0 | 85.0 | 130
W. T. | 2750 | 844 | 1825 | 0 | 32.9 | 37.5 | 87.6 | 100
Tmp. | 2068 | 458 | 1458 | 2 | 35.4 | 41.5 | 84.5 | 67
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TABLE II

COLLABORATED PLAYS

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| | | | | % | | % |
| | | | |BLANK | |SPEECHES|NO. OF
|TOTAL | | |PENTA-|VERSE | % |ENDING |LIGHT
|NO. OF| |BLANK |METER |W. FEM.|RUN-ON|WITHIN |AND WEAK
|LINES |PROSE |VERSE |RHYMES|ENDINGS|LINES |THE LINE|ENDINGS
------------+------+------+------+------+-------+------+--------+--------
1 Hy. VI | 2693 | 0 | 2379 | 314 | 8.2 | 10.4 | 0.5 | 4
2 Hy. VI | 3032 | 448 | 2562 | 122 | 13.7 | 11.4 | 1.1 | 3
3 Hy. VI | 2904 | 0 | 2749 | 155 | 13.7 | 9.5 | 0.9 | 3
T. And. | 2525 | 43 | 2338 | 144 | 8.6 | 12.0 | 2.5 | 5
T. of S. | 2671 | 516 | 1971 | 169 | 17.7 | 8.1 | 3.6 | 14
T. of A. | 2358 | 596 | 1560 | 184 | 24.7 | 32.5 | 62.8 | 30 (S)
Per. | 2386 | 418 | 1436 | 225 | 20.2 | 18.2 | 71.0 | 82 (S)
Hy. VIII | 2754 | 67 | 2613 | 16 | 47.3 | 46.3 | 72.4 | 84 (S)
T. N. K. | 2734 | 179 | 2468 | 54 | 43.7 | | |
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The accompanying Tables[5] give the detailed results of investigations
along these lines, and a study of the data therein contained will reveal
both their possibilities and their limitations. In Tables I and II the
order of the plays is approximately that of the dates of their
composition (virtually the same as the dates of first performance). The
second and third columns cannot be regarded as giving any clue to
chronology, except that they show that in the dramas written under the
influence of Marlowe prose is comparatively rare. Elsewhere Shakespeare
employed prose for a variety of purposes: for low comedy, as in the
tavern scenes in _Henry IV_, and the scenes in which Sir Toby figures in
_Twelfth Night_; for repartee, as in the wit-combats of Beatrice and
Benedick; for purely intellectual and moralizing speeches,