Dubbing in Kyd's Spanish TragedyThe World's Classics version of Kyd's Spanish Tragedy features over fifty-three roles*. This number can go much higher depending on the exact number of plural parts the director has decided to assign. In other words, the script may read simply "nobles" or "servants" and the reader may not be completely sure how many people are mentioned. If the performing company was limited in the number of actors, there could only be two "knights", but if the director had a large number of actors, he could send six. This means that after working on voice acting possibilities for three weeks, I can't be one hundred percent sure which characters were played by whom because I don't know exactly how many roles I'm trying to fill. Add to that the fact that some parts only appear once in the entire play and share the stage with only one person. These particular roles can be played by almost any actor. Therefore, I matched as many roles as I thought were necessary and left the rest to find an available player to take them on. In order to associate certain games, you had to know the minimum number of players. This will determine how many actors should be available to not only double but also direct the scene with the most roles at once. This would be scene four of the first act. There are at least twenty-two positions to be filled. Minimum because there are three plural roles: Spanish nobles, trumpeters, and servants (Kyd, 2), meaning at least two of each, and sixteen roles with individual titles. Thirty-one roles were then distributed among the actors in double parts and, in some cases, triple parts. These remaining roles cannot, however, be assigned randomly. There are two basic guidelines used to determine who gets which roles: (1) An actor must play the same role throughout the play and, (2) Two characters meeting in a scene cannot be played by the same actor because it is impossible for a player to be in two different locations at the same time. (unixg.ubc.ca) The attached table shows all character encounters in The Spanish Tragedy.