How to Cite Shakespeare in preparation for the essay: Please put this in your notes

1.Italicize the titles of plays: Macbeth

2.You must refer to a scene in the text with the act and scene numbers —separated by a period in this way:

Macbeth states, "Blood has been shed...purged the gentle weal" (3.4.77). (means=Act 3, scene 4, line 77)

In 3.1, Hamlet delivers his most famous soliloquy. (means=Act 3, scene 1)

DO NOT USE PAGE NUMBERS!

3. When quoting four or more lines from Shakespeare, normally you should use block quotation: Richard III tells his troops,

Remember whom you are to cope withal:
A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways,
A scum of Britains and base lackey peasants,
Whom their o'ercloyed country vomits forth
To desperate adventures and assur'd destruction.
(5.3.315-19)

(the block is indented twice)

4. In quoting shorter passages, you need to indicate line breaks:

Othello recalls, "Upon this hint I spake: / She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, / And I lov'd her that she did pity them" (1.3.166-68).