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?
If only you'd ever speak to me
the way you once did
look at me the way you once did
pull to me the way you once did
but you don't
you don't feel anymore
you don't care anymore
it's all gone
it's all gone
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.
you do this 'write the quote' then close quote.
if thats what your talking about.
" my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never, never leave you during your times of trials and suffering. When you see only one set of footprints it was then that I carried you" you were carried out of are lifes into the next and when its my time to leave this life I know i will be carried into the next life with you.
I wish i had my world complete again.
'Can we protend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars, i could really use a wish right now' BoB
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
