You might open the book to sonnet CXIII (Roman numerals are de rigueur):Īnd why is not your voice all I can hear? Wait until that moment when the thumb twiddling begins, then dig out Graber’s book and read one sonnet. Stick it in you backpack or oversized coat pocket. Don’t pick up Graber’s book if you’re in the mood for a Keatsian sonnet. You won’t find reat poetry in Graber’s Plutonic Sonnets, but you will find poetry that is great fun to read and endlessly inventive. Every featured poet gazed from its covers with the heart-broken burden of their own genius – a gaze that only poets are capable of – a gaze of über-narcissism that would embarrass Narcissus himself.įor all the usefulness in the publication, I just could not handle one more angst-ridden cover.
I used to have a subscription to Poets & Writer’s Magazine and for twelve issues, for one full year, there was not one smile on the cover of its magazine. How refreshing to read a book by a poet with a sense of humor. Another review of a book by a self-published poet.Place the citation after the closing punctuation.
Include the characters’ names in block capitals, followed by a period, and use a hanging indent for subsequent lines in a single character’s speech. Quoting dialogueĭialogue from two or more characters should be presented as a block quote.
If you are quoting more than three lines of verse, format it as a block quote (indented on a new line with no quotation marks). So slides he down upon his grainèd bat” ( LC 62–64). Short verse quotation with stanza breakShakespeare refers to a man who “desires to know / In brief the grounds and motives of her woe. If there’s a stanza break within the quotation, indicate it with a double forward slash (//). Short verse quotationMelun implores them to “Unthread the rude eye of rebellion, / And welcome home again discarded faith” ( Jn. Use a forward slash (/) with spaces around it to indicate a new line. To quote up to three lines of verse from a play or poem, just treat it like a normal quotation. Shakespeare quotations generally take the form of verse or dialogue. Midsummer for A Midsummer Night’s Dream) after the first mention. If you frequently mention a multi-word title in your text, you can instead shorten it to a recognizable keyword (e.g. 1.7.58) in service of her ambition.ĭon’t use these abbreviations outside of parentheses. Abbreviating play titlesShakespeare’s Macbeth ( Mac.) is a play full of remarkably violent imagery, exemplified by Lady Macbeth’s assertion that she would have been willing to “dash brains out” ( Mac. Introduce each abbreviation the first time you mention the play’s title, then use it in all subsequent citations of that play. A list of the standard abbreviations can be found here don’t make up your own abbreviations. If you cite more than one Shakespeare play in your paper, MLA recommends starting each in-text citation with an abbreviated version of the play title, in italics.
If you cite several works by Shakespeare, order them alphabetically by title, and replace “Shakespeare, William” with a series of three em dashes after the first one. The Norton Shakespeare, 3rd ed., edited by Stephen Greenblatt, W. Collection Title, edition, edited by Editor first name Last name, Publisher, Year, pp. Note that play titles remain italicized here, since these are works that would usually stand alone. If you use a collection of all or several of Shakespeare’s works, include a Works Cited entry for each work you cite from it, providing the title of the individual work, followed by information about the collection. Frequently asked questions about MLA citations.