ii. Formal Scenes in Shakespeare’s Globe Plays requiring more than five characters

Single Combat Scenes
As You Like It, I, ii; Merry Wives of Windsor, III, i; Troilus and Cressida, IV, v; Coriolanus, III, i.

Banquet Scenes
As You Like It, II, vii; Macbeth, III, iv; Antony and Cleopatra, II, vii; Timon, I, ii.

Hearing or Trial Scenes
Merry Wives of Windsor, I, i (?); Measure for Measure, II, i; Othello, I, iii; Lear, II, ii; Coriolanus, III, iii.

Council or Senate Scenes
Hamlet, I, ii; Lear, I, i; Othello, I, iii; Coriolanus, II, ii; Julius Caesar, III, i.

Play-Within-Play Scenes
Hamlet, II, ii; III, ii.

Procession Scenes
Hamlet, V, i; All’s Well, III, v; Troilus and Cressida, I, ii; III, iii; Macbeth, IV, i; Coriolanus, II, i; Pericles, II, ii; Julius Caesar, III, i.

Welcoming Scenes
Troilus and Cressida, IV, v; Othello, II, i; Macbeth, I, vi; Timon, I, i.

Alarum Scene
Macbeth, II, iii.

Parley Scenes
Antony and Cleopatra, II, ii; II, vi; Julius Caesar, V, i.

Finales
As You Like It, V, iv; Twelfth Night, V, iv; Merry Wives of Windsor, V, v; Hamlet, V, ii; All’s Well, V, iii; Measure for Measure, V, i; Othello, V, ii; Lear, V, iii; Macbeth, V, viii; Coriolanus, V, vi; Antony and Cleopatra, V, ii; Pericles, V, iii.

The only plays whose finales do not fall into this category of group scenes are Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens, and Troilus and Cressida. Their finales fall into the first category of group scenes, less than five characters with mute supernumeraries. Each of three scenes (Troilus and Cressida, IV, v; Othello, I, iii; and Julius Caesar, III, i) contains two types of formal actions within the single scene.