Comments on: Frankenstein Essays

By: JStallings

JStallings — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:21:35 +0000

Sure. Parentheses go after the quotation, as you had it: “quotation” (citation).
The first (capital) Roman numerals are the act, the second (lowercase) the scene: (III.iv). If you have line numbers, they go after the lowercase numerals.

By: lezleigh marshall

lezleigh marshall — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:09 +0000

what do i put in the parentheses for this quote, example.

By: lezleigh marshall

lezleigh marshall — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:59:32 +0000

no haha.
“a bloody deed? Almost as bad, good mother, as killing a king and marry with his brother”(act 3 scene 4 page 2)

By: JStallings

JStallings — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:20:46 +0000

Good question. Use Roman numerals for the act and scene, and Arabic numerals for the line numbers. If the quotation is longer than three typed lines, indent it and retain line breaks. If it is shorter, mark breaks with a forward slash. Like this, from Hamlet:
“It shall be so. / Madness in great ones must not unwatch’d go” (III.i.1880-1).
Notice that I shortened the second line number. If the quotation drifted over 1890, I would have to add a digit to show that: (III.i.1880-91).
Does that make sense?

By: lezleigh marshall

lezleigh marshall — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:11:02 +0000

when citing a quote from hamlet,
what do we put in the parentheses?
“blah blah blah blah”(shakespeare act VI).

help.