Speaker interactions in Hamlet

Speaker interactions in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Two characters are recorded as interacting if one speaks directly after another within a scene of the play. X speaking after Y is counted the same as Y speaking after X. Data has been extracted from the XML version of the New Folger Library Edition of Hamlet (a conflated text of the play) following a method demonstrated in Karsdorp et al.'s Humanities Data Analysis.

Usage

hamlet

Format

hamlet

A data frame with 140 rows and 5 columns

s1

first speaker in interaction, alphabetically

s2

second speaker in interaction, alphabetically

act

act number of the play in which the pair appears

scene

scene number of the play in which the pair appears

turns

number of times either speaks after the other in that act and scene

Source

https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/hamlet/download/. The New Folger Shakespeare is available under a CC-BY-NC 3.0 license. The algorithm for extracting interactions is based on Folgert Karsdorp et al., Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies with Python (Princeton University Press, 2021), chap. 2.

Details

Speaker identifications have been extracted from who attributes of sp speech-heading tags, with leading # and trailing _Ham removed.