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Shakespeare
This repository contains data on the plays of William Shakespeare.
Data
The data is scraped from shakespeare.mit.edu, and processed into CSV format. The processing code can be found in the R/functions.R file. The website shakespeare.mit.edu states that the HTML versions of the plays provided there are placed in the public domain, and the versions here follow suit.
Works included
This repository is a work-in-progress. Works currently included in CSV format:
- Hamlet
- The Life and Death of Julius Caesar
- Macbeth
- Othello
- Romeo and Juliet
Analysis
See github.com/nrennie/bechdel-test for an example of analysis performed on the Romeo and Juliet dataset.
Plots
<p align="center"> <img src="plots/romeo_juliet.png" width="49%"> <img src="plots/hamlet.png" width="49%"> </p>TidyTuesday
Some of these datasets were used for TidyTuesday data in September 2024: github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/blob/master/data/2024/2024-09-17/readme.md