Name: TinyShakespeare (Shakespeare's Plays)
Creator: Kaggle
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

About this Dataset

TinyShakespeare (Shakespeare's Plays)

40,000 lines of Shakespeare from a variety of Shakespeare's plays

Source

Huggingface Hub: link

About this dataset

40,000 lines of Shakespeare from a variety of Shakespeare's plays. Featured in Andrej Karpathy's blog post 'The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks': http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/.

How to use the dataset

Research Ideas

Developing a model to generate new works in the style of William Shakespeare

Using the characters in the plays to create new, original works

Using the dataset to study the character development of Shakespeare's characters over the course of his career

Acknowledgements

License

> License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) - Public Domain Dedication
> No Copyright - You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. See Other Information.

Columns

File: validation.csv

Column name	Description
text	The text of the play. (String)

File: train.csv

Column name	Description
text	The text of the play. (String)

File: test.csv

Column name	Description
text	The text of the play. (String)

Tables

Test

@kaggle.thedevastator_the_bards_best_a_character_modeling_dataset.test

38.29 kB
1 row
3 columns

CREATE TABLE test (
  "unnamed_0" VARCHAR  -- Unnamed: 0,
  "ex" VARCHAR,
  "unnamed_2" VARCHAR  -- Unnamed: 2
);

Validation

@kaggle.thedevastator_the_bards_best_a_character_modeling_dataset.validation

37.52 kB
1 row
3 columns

CREATE TABLE validation (
  "unnamed_0" VARCHAR  -- Unnamed: 0,
  "ex" VARCHAR,
  "unnamed_2" VARCHAR  -- Unnamed: 2
);