im being dumb :)
 

okay wonderful people..
im going to ask a question that will no doubt make many people sigh and groan at my ignorance
but
i need to ask it (:
what is the correct way to quote shakespeare??
told you it was dumb :)
is it right that,,
you put a litte / when theres a new line..
but if youre quoting like.. a verse..
its has be kept set out like that??
please help me,, oh wise and knowledgable people
(:
_xxxxx

erm in my coursework I did it normally.. like.. with any other quote.. erm..
google it?

I don't think that's a dumb question at all. Proably because I don't really know. I remember making a new paragraph, quotation marks, quote, end of quote quotation marks.
And then there was PEE, point, evidence, evaluate. However, my english teacher was banned form using that one, but used it anyway, stuck in my head since. She was awesome really.

Dicky!

you do this 'write the quote' then close quote.
if thats what your talking about.

Welll. No idea if I'm correct, but I do it the same way as I do with any other quotation. If it's less than 30 words I don't take a new paragrah or set it out in its original format, I just use quotation marks within my paragraph and the / . If it's over 30 words, I'll drop a line and set it out in its original format, with verses and such.

I'm probably completely wrong, but I can't be bothered finding out what you're supposed to do :)

Ooh, I found it for you : http://web.presby.edu/writingcenter/guides/eng1.html (plus a couple of other sites say the same).

I was basically right, except it's 4 lines rather than 30 words.

Ah, just found out that I've quoted it wrong in the 10 handwritten sides of Othello coursework that I finished an hour ago. Bummer. Oh well. Are you doing coursework too? I have 3 pieces to do today, and I've done 1 so far. Can you tell I'm looking for a way to be distracted? Lol, I'm hating it, it's dragging on sooo much :(
xxx

I think you use the / for poetry when you are moving to a new line of the poem, and when quoting Shakespeare you just put the sentence in quotation marks.

Well, I don't know. So I guess that makes me dumb too.

I always did:
writing ,"quote."

Ha, I never bothered with that. As long as it was in speech mark thingemies, I was fine.. =P

It depends on what you are quoting. If you are only quoting a short section of a poem, say two lines then using the / is correct. If you are quoting a larger section, of more than two lines then you need to space it out as a poem and use the " ", or centre it on the page away from the main paragraph of your text (one line space either side is typical) . However, if you are quoting text from a play such as Romeo and Juliet or Othello, then " " is fine to use alone.

Hope this helps.
Roiben

We had this is a spelling test
i got it right ^_^
Shakespeare

Well, i've just learned something new.

Most schools usually issue guidelines for this sort of thing.
My experience is that short sections are quoted with quotation marks in the text, with the / inbetween. But longer that two lines of a verse is quoted and indented on a new line.

heh, me too.

&considering i'm doing an english degree, i really think i probably should of known that.

This is why I like visiting forums in UK. Now If I could only pick up an accent here I could do commercials.