Dataset: Shakespeare Play's Dialogues

About this Dataset

Shakespeare Play's Dialogues

Context

We are exploring dialogue in Shakespeare plays. The dataset this week comes from shakespeare.mit.edu (via Nicola Rennie Github Repo) which is the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

The site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the internet community since 1993.

Dialogue from Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet are provided for this week.

Which play has the most stage directions compared to dialogue?

Which play has the longest lines of dialogue? Which character speaks the most?

Content

Geography: UK

Time period: History

Unit of analysis: Shakespeare Play's Dialogues

Variables

Variable	Description
act	Act number.
scene	Scene number.
character	Name of character speaking or whether it's a stage direction.
dialogue	Text of dialogue or stage direction.
line_number	Dialogue line number.

Acknowledgements

Dataset curated by Nicola Rennie

Tables

Hamlet

@kaggle.umerhaddii_shakespeare_plays_dialogues.hamlet

150.49 KB
4217 rows
5 columns


CREATE TABLE hamlet (
  "act" VARCHAR,
  "scene" VARCHAR,
  "character" VARCHAR,
  "dialogue" VARCHAR,
  "line_number" DOUBLE
);

Macbeth

@kaggle.umerhaddii_shakespeare_plays_dialogues.macbeth

89.31 KB
2553 rows
5 columns


CREATE TABLE macbeth (
  "act" VARCHAR,
  "scene" VARCHAR,
  "character" VARCHAR,
  "dialogue" VARCHAR,
  "line_number" DOUBLE
);

Romeo Juliet

@kaggle.umerhaddii_shakespeare_plays_dialogues.romeo_juliet

119.18 KB
3282 rows
5 columns


CREATE TABLE romeo_juliet (
  "act" VARCHAR,
  "scene" VARCHAR,
  "character" VARCHAR,
  "dialogue" VARCHAR,
  "line_number" DOUBLE
);