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You can include the quotation within your paragraph.
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. Don't worry about the line breaks: it's prose, so it
doesn't matter.
- 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 + Act number in Roman numerals + scene number + line number(s) + close parentheses
Example: (Shakespeare II.3.6-8) = Shakespeare's play, Act 2, scene 3, lines 6-8
6. Place a period at the END of the sentence AND/OR after the close parentheses.
7. Continue with your ideas, discussing the quotation further.
See below for an example!
After engaging in
the pointless brawl, Cassio is extremely disappointed in himself. He is cursing
himself and the devil for having drunk enough liquor to make him so belligerent. He
says, “It hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place to
the devil wrath; one unperfectness shows me another, to make me frankly despise myself” (Shakespeare II.3.298-300). Cassio says he “despises” himself over this whole affair. If Iago had not been so selfish and vindictive, Cassio would not be suffering.
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