sproct is a word-counting script for comparing differences between scripts, transcripts,
prompt books -- anything that can be represented as a set of lines spoken by different
characters. Its name is short for Shakespeare Promptbook Word Counter.
Sproct was initially developed to analyze differences between performances of Hamlet as recorded in different working scripts from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
It reads plays that are formatted like this:
BERNARDO
Who's there?
FRANCISCO
Nay, answer me:-stand, and unfold yourself.
BERNARDO
Long live the king!
FRANCISCO
Bernardo?
BERNARDO
He.
FRANCISCO
You come most carefully upon your hour.
BERNARDO
'Tis now struck twelve; get thee to bed, Francisco.
FRANCISCO
For this relief, much thanks:-'tis bitter cold, And I am sick at heart.
count counts the number of words spoken by a character in a given play.
usage: sproct.py count [-h] [--character CHARACTER] text
positional arguments:
text The play text file.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--character CHARACTER, -c CHARACTER
The name of the character.
Example:
$ python sproct.py count -c QUEEN barrett_dialogueonly_final.txt
barrett_dialogueonly_final.txt: Word counts for QUEEN:
Total: 953 Average: 14.6615384615 Lines: 65
$ python sproct.py count ../barrett_dialogueonly_final.txt
barrett_dialogueonly_final.txt: Word counts for all characters.
Character Words Average Lines
ALL 19 3.8 5
BERNARDO 168 10.5 16
FIRST CLOWN 739 21.7352941176 34
FIRST PLAYER 262 32.75 8
FRANCISCO 55 6.875 8
GHOST 582 38.8 15
GUILDENSTERN 212 10.0952380952 21
HAMLET 8811 29.7668918919 296
HORATIO 1340 16.9620253165 79
HORATIO, MARCELLUS 12 4.0 3
KING 3117 36.6705882353 85
LAERTES 1115 20.6481481481 54
LUCIANUS 41 41.0 1
MARCELLUS 200 9.52380952381 21
MARCELLUS, BERNARDO 15 3.75 4
MESSENGER 76 25.3333333333 3
OPHELIA 1033 21.9787234043 47
OSRIC 347 15.0869565217 23
PLAYER KING 126 31.5 4
PLAYER QUEEN 128 32.0 4
POLONIUS 1909 27.2714285714 70
PREFACE_TEXT 0 0.0 1
PRIEST 92 46.0 2
PROLOGUE 16 16.0 1
QUEEN 953 14.6615384615 65
ROSENCRANTZ 342 12.6666666667 27
ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN 4 4.0 1
SAILOR 41 20.5 2
SECOND CLOWN 122 9.38461538462 13
SERVANT 9 9.0 1
diff gives the approximate degree of difference between two plays,
including small spelling differences, as a decimal fraction between
0.0 and 1.0.
usage: sproct.py diff [-h] [--character CHARACTER] text_one text_two
positional arguments:
text_one The first play text file.
text_two The second play text file.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--character CHARACTER, -c CHARACTER
The name of the character.
Example:
python sproct.py diff -c QUEEN barrett_dialogueonly_final.txt forrest_dialogueonly_final.txt
Ratio of similarity betwteen barrett_dialogueonly_final.txt and forrest_dialogueonly_final.txt for character QUEEN:
0.262269248086
(Where T is the total number of elements in both sequences,
and M is the number of matches, this is 2.0 * M / T. Note
that this is 1.0 if the sequences are identical, and 0.0
if they have nothing in common.
--Python difflib documentation)
0. Preserve
QUEEN good hamlet cast thy night
1. Replace
ed colou
with
ly colo
...
bobsim stands for "bag of bigram similarity." It uses a simple
measurement (cosine similarity in bigram space) to compare lines
longer than 74 words long, and identify lines with substantial
similarities in content. (A "line" is an uninterrupted
speech by a single character.)
It's quite slow because it compares each line to each other line directly; future versions may speed this up with tricks like LSH.
usage: sproct.py bobsim [-h] text_one text_two
positional arguments:
text_one The first play text file.
text_two The second play text file.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
Example:
$ python sproct.py bobsim barrett_dialogueonly_final.txt forrest_dialogueonly_final.txt
__________________________
Similar pair:
HORATIO
In what particular thought to work, I know
not:
But, in the gross and scope of my opinion,
This bodes some strange eruption to our State.
But soft, behold! Lo, where it comes again:
I’ll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion!
If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
Speak to me. If there be any good thing to be done
That may to thee do ease, and grace to me, speak to
me.
If thou art privy to thy country’s fate,
Which happily foreknowing may avoid, oh speak.
HORATIO
In what particular thought to work, I know not;
But, in the gross and scope of mine opinion,
This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
But, soft; behold! lo, where it comes again!
I'll cross it, though it blast me. Stay,
illusion!
If thou hast any sound or use of voice,
Speak to me:
If there be any good thing to be done,
That may to thee do ease, and grace to me,
Speak to me.
If thou art privy to thy country's fate,
Which, happily, fore-knowing may avoid,
Oh, speak!
Or, if thou hast uphoarded in thy life
Extorted treasure in the womb of the earth,
For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,
Speak of it.-stay, and speak.
Similarity: 0.0
____________
Edits:
- In what particular thought to work, I know
+ In what particular thought to work, I know not;
? +++++
- not:
- But, in the gross and scope of my opinion,
? ^
+ But, in the gross and scope of mine opinion,
? ^^^
- This bodes some strange eruption to our State.
? ^
+ This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
? ^
- But soft, behold! Lo, where it comes again:
? ^ ^ ^
+ But, soft; behold! lo, where it comes again!
? + ^ ^ ^
- I’ll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion!
? ^^^ ----------
+ I'll cross it, though it blast me. Stay,
? ^
+ illusion!
- If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
? -
+ If thou hast any sound or use of voice,
+ Speak to me:
- Speak to me. If there be any good thing to be done
? -------------
+ If there be any good thing to be done,
? +
- That may to thee do ease, and grace to me, speak to
? ---------
+ That may to thee do ease, and grace to me,
- me.
+ Speak to me.
- If thou art privy to thy country’s fate,
? ^^^
+ If thou art privy to thy country's fate,
? ^
- Which happily foreknowing may avoid, oh speak.
? ----------
+ Which, happily, fore-knowing may avoid,
? + + +
+ Oh, speak!
+ Or, if thou hast uphoarded in thy life
+ Extorted treasure in the womb of the earth,
+ For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,
+ Speak of it.-stay, and speak.
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