Template:RQ:Shaw Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant

1892, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Widowers’ Houses”, in Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant, 1st volume (Containing the Three Unpleasant Plays), London: Grant Richards, […], published 1898, →OCLC, Act I, page 3:

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Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from George Bernard Shaw's work Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant (1st edition, 1898, 2 volumes). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:

• 1st volume, containing Widowers' Houses, The Philanderer, and Mrs Warren's Profession.
• 2nd volume, containing Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, and You Never Can Tell.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |volume= – mandatory in some cases: the volume number quoted from in Arabic numerals, either |volume=1 or |volume=2. The parameter must be specified if quoting from the 2nd volume. If the parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 1st volume.
• |2= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
  • You must also use |pageref= to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

You must specify this information to have the template determine the name of the play and the act number (if any) quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.

• |3=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage to be quoted from the work.
• |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

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Shaw Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant|volume=2|page=45|passage=Youd better go and slam that bag, too, down on Miss Raina's ice pudding! [''This is too much for Nicola. The bag drops from his hand.''] Begone, you '''butter'''[-]'''fingered''' donkey.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Shaw Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant|2|45|Youd better go and slam that bag, too, down on Miss Raina's ice pudding! [''This is too much for Nicola. The bag drops from his hand.''] Begone, you '''butter'''[-]'''fingered''' donkey.}}
• Result:
  • 1894, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Arms and the Man”, in Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant, 2nd volume (Containing the Four Pleasant Plays), London: Grant Richards, […], published 1898, →OCLC, Act II, page 45:

    Youd better go and slam that bag, too, down on Miss Raina's ice pudding! [This is too much for Nicola. The bag drops from his hand.] Begone, you butter[-]fingered donkey.