[Mark Allinson]

Well, this result might be of interest to Mary.

I put in six sizable random slabs of text from each one of six Shakespeare plays - here's the result:

Coriolanus:

1273 female
1110 male

= "Female"

Antony and Cleopatra:

1540 female
594 male

= "Female"

Macbeth:

614 female
616 male

= "Male" (but only just)

Hamlet:

1093 female
955 male

= "Female"

Othello:

1541 female
1076 male

= "Female"

Love's Labour Lost:

1281 female
934 male

= "Female"

So Mary, the gender genie agrees with you that Shakespeare was a woman!