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STEPS:
- Introduce the quotation in your paragraph.
- When you are going to start the quotation, insert a double quotation mark (").
- Copy the quotation exactly as it appears in the text. Insert a SLASH (/) at any line break that occurs
in the original text.
- When you get to the end of the quotation, insert a double quotation mark (").
- At the end of the sentence, include the information about where the quotation occurred in the text. Here's the formula
for that:
Open parentheses + author's name + Act # in Roman Numerals + period + Scene # + period + line number(s) + Close parentheses
Example: (Shakespeare II.3.2-4) = Act 2, Scene 3, lines 2-4
6. Place a period at the END of the sentence AND/OR after the close parentheses.
See below for a few examples!
Definition of Line Break
Lady Macbeth turns to violence in order to have the kingdom in her grasp. She says, “Look like th’ innocent flower,
/ but be the serpent under ‘t” (Shakespeare I.5.76-77). Here Lady Macbeth is convincing Macbeth that executing
Duncan is the key to the crown.
Lady Macbeth plans to encourage Macbeth to commit
evil deeds by poisoning his brain with her sinful desires, as she plans to “pour my spirits in thine ear” (Shakespeare I.5.29). She is the mastermind behind the plot, while
Macbeth first struggles with his morals, goodwill, and the fact that, in Lady Macbeth’s opinion, he was too full of
the “milk of human kindness,” and unwilling to
kill in order to get the crown (Shakespeare I.2.16).
In the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth makes a striking soliloquy, “Come, you spirits / that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / and fill me from the crown
to the toe top-full / of direst cruelty” (Shakespeare I.4.41-44). She
is asking that evil spirits should come and make her more like a man by asking them to “unsex her,” so that she
can be crueler in order to help her husband to become king.
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