Template:RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine/documentation

Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Christopher Marlowe's work Tamburlaine the Great (2nd edition, 1592, 2 parts); no online version of the 1st edition (1590) is currently available. It can be used to create a link to an online version of a 1973 reprint of the work at Google Books (archived at the Internet Archive).

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |chapter= – if quoting from one of the prologues of the work, specify |chapter=Prologue, and if quoting from the printer’s preface by Richard Jones, specify |chapter=To the Reader.
• |1= or |part= – mandatory: the part number of the work quoted from in Arabic numerals, either |part=1 or |part=2.
• |2= or |scene= – mandatory: the scene number of the play quoted from in lowercase Roman numerals.

In part 2, the scene numbering in Acts III–V contains numerous errors. Specify the correct scene numbers as indicated in the following table:

Act III		Act IIII		Act V
Correct	Incorrect	Correct	Incorrect	Correct	Incorrect
Act III, scene ii	*Act II, scene ii	Act IIII, scene ii	*Act IIII, scene iii	Act V, scene ii	*Act V, scene iiii
Act III, scene iii	*Act III, scene i			Act V, scene iii	*Act V, scene vi
Act III, scene iiii	*Act III, scene v
Act III, scene v	*Act II, scene ii

• |3= or |page= – mandatory: as the work is unpaginated, use this parameter to specify the "page number" assigned by Google Books ("GB") to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://books.google.com/books?id=0HFGOmnsvAMC&pg=PP15, specify |page=15. This parameter must be specified to have the template determine the act number (I–V) quoted from, and to link to the work.
• |act= – mandatory in some cases: in most cases, if the GB page number is specified the template can determine the act number quoted from. However, it is unable to do if GB page 28, 42, 68, 99, or 109, in which case this parameter must be used to specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, like this: |act=I.

Part 1
Act I GB pages 15–28	Act II GB pages 28–42	Act III GB pages 42–55	Act IIII GB pages 56–68	Act V GB pages 68–83
Part 2
Act I GB pages 85–99	Act II GB pages 99–109	Act III GB pages 109–125	Act IIII GB pages 126–138	Act V GB pages 139–154

• |sig= or |signature=, and |verso= – |sig= or |signature= can be used to specify the signature number quoted from, which is indicated at the bottom centre of some pages. If quoting from a verso (left-hand) page specify |verso=1 or |verso=yes; if |verso= is omitted, the template indicates that a recto (right-hand) page is quoted.
  • If a signature number is not indicated on a page, extrapolate it from the signature numbers before and after the page and enclose it in brackets using [ and ] For example, if the previous signature number is A3 and the next one is B, specify the missing signature number as |sig=[A4].
  • If quoting a range of signatures, for example, "signatures A3, verso – A4, recto", use |sig= or |signature=, and |verso=, to specify the signature at the start of the range, and |sigend= or |signatureend=, and |versoend=, (if required) to specify the signature at the end of the range.
  • If this parameter is omitted, the template links the URL of the online version of the work to the act and scene numbers.
• |4=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |5=, |t=, or |translation= – a translation of the passage into contemporary English.
• |footer= – a comment about 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

Signature specified

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine|part=2|act=II|scene=ii|sig=G4|page=113|passage=Ile haue you learne to ſleepe vpon the ground, / March in your armor thorow watery fens, / {{...}} / Then next, the way to '''fortifie''' your men, / In champion grounds, {{...}}}}; or
  • {{RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine|2|II|ii|sig=G4|113|Ile haue you learne to ſleepe vpon the ground, / March in your armor thorow watery fens, / {{...}} / Then next, the way to '''fortifie''' your men, / In champion grounds, {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The Second Part […], 2nd edition, part 2, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii, signature G4, recto:

    Ile haue you learne to ſleepe vpon the ground, / March in your armor thorow watery fens, / […] / Then next, the way to fortifie your men, / In champion grounds, […]

Signature not specified

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine|part=1|act=IV|scene=iv|page=65|passage=Take it vp Villain, and eat it, or I will make thee ſlice the brawnes of thy armes into '''carbonadoes''', and eat them.}}
• Result:
  • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene iv:

    Take it vp Villain, and eat it, or I will make thee ſlice the brawnes of thy armes into carbonadoes, and eat them.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine|part=1|chapter=Prologue|passage=[Y]ou ſhall heare the Scythian Tamburlaine: / Threatning the world with high '''aſtounding''' tearms / And ſcourging kingdomes with his conquering ſword.}}
• Result:
  • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], “The Prologue”, in Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN:

    [Y]ou ſhall heare the Scythian Tamburlaine: / Threatning the world with high aſtounding tearms / And ſcourging kingdomes with his conquering ſword.