Template:RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing Q
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1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →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 Much Ado About Nothing Q/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 Much Ado about Nothing, the quarto edition (1600). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work 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 this parameter to specify the "page number" assigned by the Internet Archive to the URL. For example, if the URL ishttps://archive.org/details/muchadoeaboutnot00shak/page/n6/mode/1up
, specify|page=6
.
- 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 A2, verso – A3, 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 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
[edit]- Signature specified
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing Q|act=I|scene=ii|sig=B2|page=14|passage=Hovv novv brother, vvhere is my '''coſen''' your ſonne, hath he prouided this muſique?}}
; or{{RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing Q|I|ii|sig=B2|page=14|Hovv novv brother, vvhere is my '''coſen''' your ſonne, hath he prouided this muſique?}}
- Result:
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], signature B2, recto:
- Hovv novv brother, vvhere is my coſen your ſonne, hath he prouided this muſique?
- Signature not specified
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing Q|act=II|scene=i|page=16|passage=He vvere an excellent man that vvere made iuſt in the mid-vvay betvveen him and Benedick, the one is too like an image and ſaies nothing, and the other too like my ladies eldeſt ſonne, euermore '''tatling'''.}}
- Result:
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
- He vvere an excellent man that vvere made iuſt in the mid-vvay betvveen him and Benedick, the one is too like an image and ſaies nothing, and the other too like my ladies eldeſt ſonne, euermore tatling.
See also
[edit]{{RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing}}
– to quote the version of the play published in the First Folio (1623)