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benchaffe/shakespeare-lines

Shakespeare Lines Dataset The Shakespeare Lines dataset contains cleaned, line-by-line excerpts from the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This dataset is curated for use in training and fine-tuning language models on literary or archaic English. It has been stripped of metadata, scene directions, headers/footers, and other non-dialogue filler commonly found in public domain eBooks. Dataset Structure Each example contains: text: A single line of dialogue… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/benchaffe/shakespeare-lines.

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Shakespeare Lines Dataset

The Shakespeare Lines dataset contains cleaned, line-by-line excerpts from the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This dataset is curated for use in training and fine-tuning language models on literary or archaic English. It has been stripped of metadata, scene directions, headers/footers, and other non-dialogue filler commonly found in public domain eBooks.

Dataset Structure

Each example contains:

—text: A single line of dialogue from one of Shakespeare’s plays or sonnets.

Example:

json

{
  "text": "To be, or not to be: that is the question."
}

Source

The raw texts were sourced from Project Gutenberg, which provides public domain books. The dataset was manually cleaned to remove:

—Stage directions (e.g., [Enter Romeo], [Exit.])
—Scene headers (ACT I, SCENE II)
—Line numbers and roman numerals
—Table of contents and licensing info

Usage

python

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("benchaffe/shakespeare-lines")
print(dataset[0])

Limitations

The dataset does not preserve scene or speaker metadata.<br> Some filtering may accidentally remove legitimate content (e.g., short lines in all caps).<br> Lines are context-independent unless reassembled manually.<br>

Source

Project Gutenberg: (https://www.gutenberg.org/)