How many of shakepear's plays where acted?

Answer 1

This could be a number of different questions.

If you mean, how big are the casts for Shakespeare's plays, the answer is, very big. The play with the largest cast is Henry VI Part 2 which has 51 parts, not counting extras. Many of these appear in only one or two scenes and so one actor could play three or four parts. Most plays have much smaller casts: Othello has 13 parts plus extras, The Comedy of Errors has 17, The Merry Wives of Windsor 18. These are still formidable casts.

If you mean, how many actors over time have played Shakespeare plays at some time in their career, the answer is most of them. Most professional actors in the English-speaking world will have played in a Shakespeare play at some time or another, even if it was only as part of their training. In addition many amateurs perform in Shakespeare plays.

If you mean, how many actors were in Shakespeare's playing company, the answer is that it changed from time to time. Some names were constants, like Burbage, Shakespeare, Augustine Phillips, Henry Condell, and John Heminges. William Kempe played the clown parts in the early plays; he was replaced by Robert Armin. Thomas Pope and George Bryan were older actors who retired from the company later. William Sly, Nicholas Tooley and Richard Cowley were some of the newer actors. Christopher Beeston and Alexander Cooke were two of the boys who played the female parts. All in all, there were between 16 and 19 actors in the company.

Answer 2

Shakespeare is listed on the cast list for Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour and Sejanus. He is also listed right at the top of the list of Actors in the First Folio who acted in his own plays. One of his contemporaries said that he preferred to play "kingly roles", like the ghost in Hamlet or King Henry IV in the Henry IV plays.

Answer 3

i cant find the answer any where

Answer 4

All of then :P