Maybe we should evaluate if we need to add additional information to the /characters endpoint (or introduce /characters/{character-id} #160 ) because we have research scenarios in which people want to use/use the API but don't get the information they want from an API endpoint and, again, have to parse the TEI returned by /plays/{playname}/tei (which, actually, somehow renders the API obsolete)

Example:
@arojascastro needs the value of to identify characters in a corpus

see also #340 distinct-speaker labels that might be of interest for research