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Literary Essay Style Guide

Literary Essay Style Guide . For Shakespeare. Verse Plays & Poems . Omit page numbers Cite by Division (Act, Scene, Canto, Book, Part, and Line). Macbeth tells his wife, “I am in blood/ stepp’d in so far, that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o’er” (3.4. 167-169)

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Literary Essay Style Guide

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  1. Literary Essay Style Guide For Shakespeare

  2. Verse Plays & Poems • Omit page numbers • Cite by Division (Act, Scene, Canto, Book, Part, and Line). • Macbeth tells his wife, “I am in blood/stepp’d in so far, that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o’er” (3.4. 167-169) • This indicates that the passage quoted appears in Act 3, scene 4, line 167-169) www.ottawacatholicschools.ca/trh (Pg. 19)

  3. If you quote part or all of a single line of dialogue from one character • Put it in quotation marks within your text • Eg. Mercutio realizes his fate when he responds to Romeo that his cut is “not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a / chruch-door; but ‘tis enough, ‘twill serve. Ask for me / tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man: (3.1. 95-97).

  4. Long quotations • More than three lines for one character should begin on a new line; • Indent each line one inch from the left margin and double-space between the lines • No quotation marks • Parenthetical reference on the side • Eg. Romeo exemplifies the urgency for his love, Juliet, when he sees her from afar on her family’s balcony: But soft! What light through yonder window break It is the east, and Juliet the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. (2.1.2-6)

  5. Quote dialogue between 2 or more characters • Set quotations off from your text • Begin with character’s name • Indent one inch from left margin with capital letters: ROMEO. • Follow the name with a period • When dialogue switches to a new character, change lines. • Eg. A forboding note of tragedy hangs in the air as Romeo and Juliet exchange bittersweet farewells: JULIET. O, think’st though we shall ever meet again? ROMEO. I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discoures in our time to come. JULIET. O God, I have an ill-divining sould! Me thinkis I see thee, now thou are below, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. (3.5.51-56)

  6. formatting • Work Cited: www.ottawacatholicschools.ca/trh (pg. 21) in Literary Essay Style Guide • First Page: www.ottawacatholicschools.ca/trh (pg. 4) These documents are found under the TRH website (link above) and under the tab “News/Docs”  Literary Essay Style Guide. PLEAE FOLLOW FOR APPLICATION MARKS!

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