Plays and Poems: Data Preview (cat, cut, head and csvlook)

In this project, we utilise a text corpus containing plays and poems from the Shakespeare-era (16th and 17th centuries) and find which are the words most frequently used by some of the known authors (.e.g., Shakespeare) of that time!

You may wonder to know that, so far there is no comprehensive collection of electronic texts of these works in the public domain, rather a portion of the plays and poems are held in an machine readable archive at the Centre for ...