metadata
language:
- en
license: cc0-1.0
task_categories:
- text-generation
pretty_name: Shakespeare Complete Works - Dialogue Format
tags:
- shakespeare
- dialogue
- drama
- literature
Taken from Andrej Karpathy and repurposed for UofT's CSC 413 Deep Learning 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/.
Usage
To use for e.g. character modelling:
from datasets import load_dataset
# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("r-three/shakespeare-sonnet-dialogue-blob")
Source
Public domain works by William Shakespeare, sourced from the Karpathy char-rnn repository.
To cite:
@misc{
author={Karpathy, Andrej},
title={char-rnn},
year={2015},
howpublished={\url{https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn}}
}
License
This dataset is in the public domain (CC0-1.0) as Shakespeare's works are no longer under copyright.