Template:RQ:Shakespeare Midsummer Q1/documentation

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Documentation for Template:RQ:Shakespeare Midsummer Q1. [edit]
This page contains usage information, categories, interwiki links and other content describing the template.

Usage[edit]

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from William Shakespeare's work A Midsummer Night's Dream (First Quarto, 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 original work was not divided into acts and scenes, 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 the Internet Archive to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URLis https://archive.org/details/midsommernightsd1600shak/page/n4/mode/1up, specify |page=4. 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.
  • |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 Midsummer Q1|act=I|scene=i|sig=A2|verso=1|page=5|passage=Thou, thou, ''Lyſander'', thou haſt giuen her '''rimes''', / And interchang'd loue tokens vvith my childe: {{...}}}}
    • {{RQ:Shakespeare Midsummer Q1|I|i|sig=A2|verso=1|page=5|Thou, thou, ''Lyſander'', thou haſt giuen her '''rimes''', / And interchang'd loue tokens vvith my childe: {{...}}}}
  • Result:
Signature not specified
  • Wikitext: {{RQ:Shakespeare Midsummer Q1|act=II|scene=i|page=17|passage=The humane mortals vvant their vvinter heere / No night is novv vvith hymme or '''carroll''' bleſt; / Therefore the Moone (the gouerneſſe of floods) / Pale in her anger, vvaſhes all the aire; / That Rheumaticke diſeaſes do abound.}}
  • Result:
    • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
      The humane mortals vvant their vvinter heere / No night is novv vvith hymme or carroll bleſt; / Therefore the Moone (the gouerneſſe of floods) / Pale in her anger, vvaſhes all the aire; / That Rheumaticke diſeaſes do abound.

See also[edit]


v • d • e
Works by William Shakespeare
Comedies
{{RQ:Fletcher Shakespeare Two Noble Kinsmen}} · {{RQ:Shakespeare All's Well}} · {{RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It}} · {{RQ:Shakespeare Comedy of Errors}} · {{RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost}} ({{RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost Q1}}) · {{RQ:Shakespeare Measure}} · {{RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice}} ({{RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice Q1}}) · {{RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives}} ({{RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives Q1}}) · {{RQ:Shakespeare Midsummer}} ({{RQ:Shakespeare Midsummer Q1}}) · {{RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing}} ({{RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing Q}}) · {{RQ:Shakespeare Pericles}} · {{RQ:Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew}} · {{RQ:Shakespeare Tempest}} · {{RQ:Shakespeare Twelfth Night}} · {{RQ:Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona}} · {{RQ:Shakespeare Winter's Tale}}
Histories
Tragedies
Other plays
{{RQ:Munday et al Thomas More}} (contains contributions attributed to Shakespeare) · {{RQ:Theobald Double Falshood}} (thought to be based on the lost play The History of Cardenio by Shakespeare and John Fletcher)
Poetry
{{RQ:Passionate Pilgrime}} (contains some Shakespeare poems) · {{RQ:Shakespeare Lucrece}} · {{RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets}} · {{RQ:Shakespeare Venus and Adonis}}


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