25 voice clusters over 6,466 characters from 494 plays, grouped into families. Each cluster page lists every member chronologically, with an emergence estimate ("established by" = the year the first tenth of dated members had appeared), prototype candidates (formative-era members of above-median typicality), landmarks, typicality scores, and speech evidence. Year ranges here and on the rosters use performance-first dating (first-performance year where known, else the catalogued year); "est." is the establishment year. Characters speaking fewer than 150 words are not clustered, and only one edition of each play is included. Full rules: Methods & labels.
HIRCIUS (The Virgin Martyr, 1620) · SPUNGIUS (The Virgin Martyr, 1620) · CLOWN (Orlando Furioso, 1591)
317 characters · 206 plays · 1550–1640 · median 1607 · est. by 1589
shillings, tom, guts, mutton, wares, dan, lousy, worshipful, stinkard, nuncle
FABIO (The Young Admiral, 1633) · DALAVILL (The English Traveller, 1627) · SERVANT (Romeo and Juliet, 1595)
288 characters · 204 plays · 1525–1641 · median 1606 · est. by 1581
numps, numpes, blastfield, wares, parson, nidden, delicate, iinny, nat, tarrieth
CASSIUS (Julius Caesar, 1599) · SHALLOW (2 Henry the Fourth, 1597) · CASTRUCCIO (1 The Honest Whore (1 The…, 1604)
267 characters · 188 plays · 1538–1641 · median 1607 · est. by 1590
ralph, blastfield, bully, abram, rees, signiour, quoits, marse, halloe, doublet
THERSITES (Troilus and Cressida, 1602) · CHUB (1 Edward the Fourth, 1599) · ONION (The Case Is Altered, 1597)
262 characters · 177 plays · 1525–1641 · median 1605 · est. by 1577
tospot, rees, ralph, soch, tout, oundes, faukenbridge, zounds, bottle, george
IACAMO (The Royal Master, 1638) · CAPONI (The Great Duke of Florence, 1627) · PAGE (Parasitaster, or The Fawn, 1604)
245 characters · 180 plays · 1520–1641 · median 1606 · est. by 1576
nat, ningle, chould, numps, terry, dery, gyb, vader, relyke, chil
BUBULCUS (The School of Compliment (Love…, 1625) · SIR ANDREW (Twelfth Night, or What You Will, 1601) · CALIANAX (The Maid's Tragedy, 1610)
218 characters · 178 plays · 1534–1641 · median 1607 · est. by 1578
rogues, crochet, shakbag, kicked, doister, tidle, prolixity, doublet, hillaria, sbloud
VALERIA (Coriolanus, 1608) · GALLA (Catiline His Conspiracy, 1611) · BELLAPERT (The Fatal Dowry, 1619)
307 characters · 218 plays · 1520–1641 · median 1608 · est. by 1589
nony, tailors, butler, mall, jesu, massinissa, delicate, trivia, tom, medam
EARL (Westward Ho, 1604) · ROMEO (Romeo and Juliet, 1595) · WITTIPOL (The Devil Is an Ass, 1631)
262 characters · 184 plays · 1528–1640 · median 1607 · est. by 1589
signor, sal, zelmane, handkerchief, absolon, dissemble, thrall, dois, blushes, creation
HARMONY (The Inner-Temple Masque, or The…, 1619) · HENRY III (A New Wonder, A Woman Never Vexed, 1611) · PEACE (Histriomastix, or The Player…, 1599)
293 characters · 201 plays · 1528–1641 · median 1603 · est. by 1565
horestes, quha, weill, bohor, sysimethres, griselda, baith, renown, dois, luife
CORNELIA (The White Devil (Vittoria…, 1612) · SHEPHERD (1 Henry the Sixth, 1590) · FATHER (3 Henry the Sixth, 1591)
266 characters · 197 plays · 1535–1641 · median 1604 · est. by 1575
earine, jarbus, alack, vapours, mishap, hapless, doleful, annetta, soch, babe
PORTER (Henry the Eighth (All Is True), 1613) · SOLDIER (The Wonder of A Kingdom, 1631) · GENTLEMEN (The Royal King and the Loyal…, 1602)
245 characters · 187 plays · 1520–1640 · median 1604 · est. by 1567
ang, hunc, fleire, shillings, chil, sblood, scavenger, towsand, palurin, dextram
ANNE (Richard the Third, 1592) · MARGARET (Richard the Third, 1592) · GHOST (Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, 1601)
228 characters · 174 plays · 1525–1640 · median 1604 · est. by 1577
broom, tiff, loathsome, snakes, hercles, dismal, bestis, serpents, crimes, shades
INGENIOLO (The School of Compliment (Love…, 1625) · QUEEN ELIZA (Histriomastix, or The Player…, 1599) · PALLAS (The World Tossed at Tennis, 1620)
180 characters · 127 plays · 1520–1641 · median 1608 · est. by 1585
casane, crites, anacreon, ortum, elementis, dextram, groves, dooste, yeah, lungs
PENELOPE (The Gamester, 1633) · LADY GREY (3 Henry the Sixth, 1591) · JULIA (The Duchess of Malfi, 1614)
287 characters · 199 plays · 1520–1641 · median 1611 · est. by 1590
loyalty, handmaid, spotless, blessings, hamilcar, moves, henry, dissemble, sheele, writing
AURELIO (May Day, 1602) · SELINA (The School of Compliment (Love…, 1625) · PROTEUS (The Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1593)
281 characters · 185 plays · 1553–1640 · median 1606 · est. by 1589
griselda, mephastophilis, rsini, zelmane, hapless, orgalio, jarbus, marriam, peggy, guiltless
BASSIANUS (Titus Andronicus, 1594) · DIOCLETIAN (The Virgin Martyr, 1620) · YORK (2 Henry the Sixth (The First Part…, 1590)
272 characters · 192 plays · 1534–1641 · median 1605 · est. by 1588
massinissa, yaw, league, renown, quasi, apud, sicut, armies, hunc, lisimachus
MALEFORT (The Unnatural Combat, 1624) · BERINTHIA (The Maid's Revenge, 1626) · EDITH (The Bloody Brother (Rollo, Duke…, 1617)
238 characters · 173 plays · 1534–1640 · median 1609 · est. by 1587
piety, thalander, crimes, blessings, loathed, pretend, sufferings, monument, moves, parent
GENERAL (The Spanish Tragedy (Hieronimo is…, 1587) · ENCELADUS (The Golden Age, or The Lives of…, 1610) · AEGEON (The Golden Age, or The Lives of…, 1610)
277 characters · 187 plays · 1538–1640 · median 1608 · est. by 1588
armies, fleece, pestle, wonted, pikes, thundering, quake, hideous, phaebus, fiercely
RAMUS (The Massacre at Paris, 1593) · CLOVE (Every Man Out of His Humor, 1599) · LORENZO SENIOR (Every Man in His Humor, 1598)
276 characters · 190 plays · 1520–1641 · median 1607 · est. by 1583
sicut, istis, quasi, crites, animal, quatuor, bubo, signiour, habet, juice
MAZERES (The Bloody Banquet, 1639) · OLD GERALDINE (The English Traveller, 1627) · STROZA (A Maidenhead Well Lost, 1633)
245 characters · 191 plays · 1525–1641 · median 1605 · est. by 1588
nat, leaguer, assyrian, mowche, bashas, andalle, sango, histaspis, wilful, dos
HUME (2 Henry the Sixth (The First Part…, 1590) · WISE WOMAN (The Wise Woman of Hogsdon, 1604) · CORNELIUS (Cymbeline, King of Britain, 1609)
236 characters · 180 plays · 1528–1641 · median 1610 · est. by 1584
ithimore, nat, invisible, notary, glycerie, humfrey, lenkin, faukenbridge, knavery, herbs
STANLEY (Richard the Third, 1592) · LEARCHUS (The Woman in the Moon, 1593) · OATLEY (The Shoemaker's Holiday, or The…, 1599)
253 characters · 171 plays · 1553–1641 · median 1604 · est. by 1590
tanner, kate, topas, harry, henry, george, annetta, sheele, dissemble, nun
EUARCHUS (The Arcadia, 1640) · GOVERNOR (The Widow's Tears, 1604) · METELLUS (Caesar and Pompey (The Wars of…, 1605)
248 characters · 183 plays · 1520–1641 · median 1606 · est. by 1578
madestee, welse, enormity, bench, peopill, worshipful, soch, carl, accused, crimes
HENRY (The Massacre at Paris, 1593) · BRUTUS (Julius Caesar, 1599) · GUISE (The Massacre at Paris, 1593)
242 characters · 173 plays · 1535–1640 · median 1607 · est. by 1590
salic, caius, flewellen, coronel, mamon, crimes, league, pinner, traitorous, armies
NURSE (The New Inn, or The Light Heart, 1629) · USURER (A Looking Glass for London and…, 1588) · WILLIAMS (Henry the Fifth, 1599)
233 characters · 177 plays · 1525–1641 · median 1606 · est. by 1584
gar, shillings, alii, yongrave, ogenes, nat, zonne, cuz, zay, lollard