Template:RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets/documentation

Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from William Shakespeare's work Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1st edition, 1609). 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:

• |1= or |sonnet=, or |poem= – mandatory: the sonnet number quoted from in Arabic numerals. If quoting from "A Lover's Complaint", specify |poem=A Lover's Complaint.
• |sig= or |signature=, and |verso= – as the work is unpaginated and not divided into acts and scenes, |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 B, verso – B2, 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 either links the URL of the online version of the work to the chapter name if one is specified, or displays it as a superscript link after the title of the work.
• |2= or |page= – mandatory in some cases: use this parameter to specify the "page number" assigned by Google Books to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://books.google.com/books?id=vF3QMSp6pg4C&pg=PP13, specify |page=13. This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.
• |line= or |lines= – the line number(s) quoted from. If quoting a range of lines, separate the first and last number with an en dash, like this: |lines=10–11.
• |3=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment about the passage quoted.
• |4=, |t=, or |translation= – a translation of the passage quoted into contemporary English.
• |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:Shakespeare Sonnets|poem=A Lover's Complaint|sig=L2|verso=1|page=234|passage=Thus meerely vvith the garment of a grace, / The naked and concealed feind he couerd, / That th'vnexperient gaue the tempter place, / VVhich like a Cherubin aboue them '''houerd''', / VVho young and ſimple vvould not be ſo louerd.}}
• Result:
  • 1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signature L2, verso:

    Thus meerely vvith the garment of a grace, / The naked and concealed feind he couerd, / That th'vnexperient gaue the tempter place, / VVhich like a Cherubin aboue them houerd, / VVho young and ſimple vvould not be ſo louerd.

Signature not specified

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets|sonnet=1|page=13|passage=VVithin thine ovvne bud burieſt thy content, / And tender [[churl|chorle]] makſt [[waste|vvaſt]] in '''niggarding''': {{...}}}}; or
  • {{RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets|1|13|VVithin thine ovvne bud burieſt thy content, / And tender [[churl|chorle]] makſt [[waste|vvaſt]] in '''niggarding''': {{...}}}}; or
• Result:
  • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 1”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […]‎^[1], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

    VVithin thine ovvne bud burieſt thy content, / And tender chorle makſt vvaſt in niggarding: […]

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets|poem=A Lover's Complaint|page=155|passage=For vvhen vve rage, [[advice|aduiſe]] is often ſeene / By blunting vs to make our vvits more '''keene'''.}}
• Result:
  • 1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […]‎^[2], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

    For vvhen vve rage, aduiſe is often ſeene / By blunting vs to make our vvits more keene.