1. In-text Citations and Works Cited
Focus on how to cite Shakespeare

2. How to Cite a Play (MLA)
It is customary to cite the act, scene, and line number rather than the page number in your in-text citations.
Tips for citing plays:
Begin with the broadest division (usually act) and continue through the smallest division (usually scene or line).
Separate each division with a period. Label each division so the reader knows exactly where to find the quotation in the text.
Some plays will contain more or fewer divisions than act, scene, & line. Use as much information as is available in the text.
If you have included the author's name elsewhere in your paper, you do not need to include it in your parenthetical citation. Instead, include the first significant word of the title.

3. Examples
If you quote a remark from one character, you can incorporate it into the body of the paragraph.
Nora's epiphany occurs when she realizes her husband will never reciprocate the sacrifices she's made to protect his pride. She finally stands up to Helmer, telling him, "You neither think nor talk like the man I could join myself to" (Doll act 3).
(Note: Ibsen's A Doll House is divided by act only. This will be the only division you can cite.)
Although Oedipus blames the gods for his tragic fate, he admits that his latest misfortune is his own doing when he cries, "But the blinding hand was my own! How could I bear to see when all my sight was horror everywhere?" (Oedipus exodus. strophe 2. lines ).
(Note: Oedipus Rex is broken into numerous divisions; all available divisions are included in the citation.)

4. How to cite Shakespeare
For a paper that refers to more than one work, use the play name in the citation rather than the author. If writing about one play, replace the play title in the parenthetical citation for the author's last name. (This is what we’re doing.)
Author: Shakespeare
Use Arabic numerals to refer to act, scene, and line numbers (no page numbers are listed): or if we are covering information from lines 10 through 25. If the line number are 100 or higher, we use the first whole line number 265 and the last two digits of the second line number:

5. If referring to an act and scene of a play in your the body of your text, format it as such: In 2.2, Hamlet's despondency becomes the subject of mockery amongst his peers.
If we are only referring to one work by Shakespeare in our paper than our parenthetical citation would look like this: (Shakespeare )

6. Play Quotations (short verse)
For quotations that refer to one character and are under four lines of verse, we can use "Quotation Marks." The citation will come between the last quotation mark and the period.
We will want to use slashes / to indicate line breaks.
Example:
"Doomed for a certain term to walk the night, / And for the day confined to fast in fires, / Til the foul crime done in my days of nature“ (Shakespeare ).

7. Play Quotations (long verse)
For quotations that refer to one character and are longer than three lines of verse or four lines of prose we will want to double indent (1" or two taps of the tab key) and create a block quote.
We will not use quotation marks or italicize the quote, the indentation will be indication enough:

8. He took me by the wrist, and held me hard,
Then goes he to the length of all his arm,
And with his other hand thus o'er his brow,
He falls to such perusal of my face
As 'a would draw it. Long stayed he so.
At last, a little shaking mine arm,
And thrice his head thus waving up and down,
He raised a sigh so piteous and profound
As it did seem to shatter all his bulk,
And end his being. (Shakespeare )
Notice that the parenthetical citation comes after the period in a long quote and that there is not a period after the citation.

9. MLA Works Cited for a book (play) by a Single Author Ex
MLA Works Cited for a book (play) by a Single Author Ex. Author's last name, Author's first name and middle initial. Title of Book in italics and each word capitalized except for words like of and the. City of publication without the state: Publisher, Year of publication. Medium of publication which is "Print" for books.

10. What do you do if you don’t know how to cite something?
Google it!
Owl Purdue is a great source.
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