Template:RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives Q1
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c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, […] [T]he Merrie Wiues of Windsor. […] (First Quarto), London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for Arthur Ihonson, […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives Q1/documentation. [edit]
- Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox
Usage
[edit]This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from the earliest known version of William Shakespeare's work The Merry Wives of Windsor, the First Quarto (1602). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books (archived at the Internet Archive).
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following parameters:
|1=
or|act=
– mandatory: the act number of the play quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.|2=
or|scene=
– mandatory: the scene number of the play quoted from in lowercase Roman numerals. As the work does not have act and scene numbers, look up the act and scene numbers from a modern edition of the play.|page=
– mandatory in some cases: as the work is unpaginated, use|page=
to specify the "page number" assigned by Google Books to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL ishttps://books.google.com/books?id=1yDPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP11
, specify|page=11
. This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.|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.
- 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
|line=
or|lines=
– the line number(s) to be quoted, from a modern edition of the play.|3=
,|text=
, or|passage=
– the passage to be quoted.|4=
,|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
[edit]- Signature specified
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives Q1|act=II|scene=ii|sig=C2|verso=1|page=26|passage=[[w:Falstaff|''Fal''[''staff'']]]. I vvill not lend thee a penny. / [[w:Ancient Pistol|''Piſt''[''ol'']]]. VVhy then '''the vvorld's mine Oyſter''', vvhich I, vvith ſvvord vvill open.}}
; or{{RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives Q1|II|ii|sig=C2|verso=1|page=26|[[w:Falstaff|''Fal''[''staff'']]]. I vvill not lend thee a penny. / [[w:Ancient Pistol|''Piſt''[''ol'']]]. VVhy then '''the vvorld's mine Oyſter''', vvhich I, vvith ſvvord vvill open.}}
- Result:
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, […] [T]he Merrie Wiues of Windsor. […] (First Quarto), London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for Arthur Ihonson, […], published 1602, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], signature C2, verso:
- Fal[staff]. I vvill not lend thee a penny. / Piſt[ol]. VVhy then the vvorld's mine Oyſter, vvhich I, vvith ſvvord vvill open.
- Signature not specified
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives Q1|act=II|scene=ii|page=32|passage=Ile ſooner truſt an Iriſhman vvith my / '''Aquauita''' bottle, Sir ''Hu''[''gh Evans''] our parſon vvith my cheeſe, / A [[thief|theefe]] to vvalk my ambling gelding, thẽ my vvife / VVith her ſelfe; {{...}}}}
- Result:
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, […] [T]he Merrie Wiues of Windsor. […] (First Quarto), London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for Arthur Ihonson, […], published 1602, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- Ile ſooner truſt an Iriſhman vvith my / Aquauita bottle, Sir Hu[gh Evans] our parſon vvith my cheeſe, / A theefe to vvalk my ambling gelding, thẽ my vvife / VVith her ſelfe; […]
See also
[edit]{{RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives}}
– to quote the version of the play published in the First Folio (1623)