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+# shakespearefirstfolio
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+## About
+🎭 Shakespeare's First Folio (a collection of 36 of Shakespeare's plays) as a Hugging Face dataset!
+
+## Description
+In 2015, Andrej Karpathy wrote a post called "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks" in his blog. For the needs of this post, he created tinyshakespeare, a subset of Shakespeare's works in a single 40,000 lines file. Surprisingly, language models trained from scratch on this tiny dataset can produce samples that look very close to those written by Shakespeare himself.
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+Since then, tinyshakespeare has been the defacto dataset used as a first test while developing language models. Unfortunately, it has some problems:
+1) It is a single file, which makes further processing difficult
+2) It contains only a subset of Shakespeare's plays
+3) It is not clear exactly what works and to what extend are included
+
+This dataset tries to address these problems.
+
+It was manually collected from [Folger Shakespeare Library](www.folger.edu).
+
+## Usage
+    import datasets
+
+    dataset = datasets.load_dataset("gvlassis/shakespearefirstfolio")