Template:RQ:Jonson Devil/documentation

Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Ben Jonson's work The Deuill is an Asse: A Comedie (1st edition, 1631). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books (archived at the Internet Archive).

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |chapter= – if quoting from the prologue or epilogue, specify |chapter=Prologue or |chapter=Epilogue respectively, and if quoting from "The Persons of the Play" specify |chapter=Persons.
• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=95–96.
  • You must also use |pageref= to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

You must specify this information to have the template determine the act number (I–V) and scene number quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.

As the work was extracted from a folio of Jonson's works intended to be published in 1631 but never issued, the pagination runs from page 93 to 170.

• |act= and |scene= – mandatory in some cases: in most cases, if the page number is specified the template can determine the act and scene numbers quoted from. If it is unable to do so, use |act= to specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and |scene= the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals, like this: |act=I or |scene=i.

Act I pages 95–111

Act IJ pages 111–128

Act III pages 129–141

Act IIIJ pages 142–157

Act V pages 158–170

• |2=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment on the passage quoted.
• |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

Examples

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Jonson Devil|chapter=Persons|page=93|passage={{smallcaps|Satan}}. ''The great diuell.'' / '''{{smallcaps|Pvg}}'''. ''The leſſe diuell.''|footer=Used as the name of a character in the play.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Jonson Devil|chapter=Persons|93|{{smallcaps|Satan}}. ''The great diuell.'' / '''{{smallcaps|Pvg}}'''. ''The leſſe diuell.''|footer=Used as the name of a character in the play.}}
• Result:
  • 1616 October or November (first performance), Ben Jonson, “The Persons of the Play”, in The Diuell is an Asse: A Comedie […], London: […] I. B. for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, page 93:

    Satan. The great diuell. / Pvg. The leſſe diuell.

    Used as the name of a character in the play.