If you are
citing a play published in an anthology, follow this format:
Shakespeare, William.
Citing Sources Written by Shakespeare
- Author.
- Title of Source,
- Title of Container,
- Other Contributors,
- Version,
- Number,
- Publisher,
- Publication date,
When citing a play with numbered lines, the MLA parenthetical citation should include the author name and the act, scene and line number(s). If the lines are not numbered, include the page number instead.
Things Needed
- Name of the movie script author.
- Name of the movie script (Manuscript)
- Name of the city where the script was published (if this has been published)
- Publisher's name (if this has been published)
- Page number from where the citation has been picked.
- URL of the script (if it is taken from an online source)
To be made up of:
- Author (surname followed by initials).
- Year of publication (in round brackets).
- Title (in italics).
- Edition information.
- Place of publication: publisher.
- Act. Scene: line.
No Fear Shakespeare or No Fear LiteratureTo create a citation for the No Fear text you're reading, just use the title of that book/guide in place of “Hamlet”. SparkNotes editors. “No Fear Hamlet.” SparkNotes.com, SparkNotes LLC, 2005, nofear/shakespeare/hamlet/.
When citing prose plays, use the page number first, followed by a semicolon and then other identifying information (e.g. Miller 9; Act 1). When citing verse plays with line numbers provided, use those instead of page numbers, separating division numbers with a period (see example above).
Use the line number from the edition you are using. Typically these are printed in the margin. If you're using an edition without line numbers, then don't make them up, just use the act and scene numbers.
Harvard referencing uses an author–date system. Sources are cited by the author's last name and the publication year in brackets. Each Harvard in-text citation corresponds to an entry in the alphabetised reference list at the end of the paper.
"Thy" is an English word that means "your" in the second person singular. English used to have a distinction between singular and plural in the second person, such that we had the following: Singular: thou, thee, thy. Plural: ye, you, your.
By about 1450, Middle English was replaced with Early Modern English, the language of Shakespeare, which is almost identical to contemporary English.
They are all second person singular pronouns. "Thou" and "thee" are subject and object pronouns respectively and both mean "you". "Thy" is possessive and means "your". There is also the possessive pronoun "thine", which means "yours". February 24, 2016.
Thou is an old-fashioned, poetic, or religious word for 'you' when you are talking to only one person. It is used as the subject of a verb.
Thee is an old-fashioned, poetic, or religious word for 'you' when you are talking to only one person. It is used as the object of a verb or preposition. I miss thee, beloved father.
The Middle English pronouns follow a similar trajectory:
- Thou = you when the subject (“Thou liketh writing.”)
- Thee = you when the object (“Writing liketh thee.”)
- Thy = your possessive form of you.
- Thine = your possessive form of you, typically used before a noun.
General information about MLA and Shakespeare
- Italicize the titles of the plays – Macbeth (for the play), Macbeth (for the character)
- You may abbreviate the title of the play in the parenthetical citation (check with your teacher first)
- Do not use page numbers in parenthetical citation – always include (act.scene.lines)
List films by their title. Include the name of the director, the film studio or distributor, and the release year. If relevant, list performer names after the director's name.
World authority on Shakespeare. Editor of The Complete Romeo and Juliet, play by William Shakespeare, written about 1594–96 and first published in an unauthorized quarto in 1597. An authorized quarto appeared in 1599, substantially longer and more reliable.
For every in-text citation in your paper, there must be a corresponding entry in your reference list. APA in-text citation style uses the author's last name and the year of publication, for example: (Field, 2005). For direct quotations, include the page number as well, for example: (Field, 2005, p. 14).
References EntryStart with the author's name, last name first, then first initial followed by a period. Put the date of publication (or translation) in parentheses next with a period after the parentheses. Write the title of the play with no special formatting such as quotation marks or italics.
MLA Format
- Author's last name, first name. Title, translated or edited by first name last name, publisher, year published, page numbers.
- Shakespeare, William. Hamlet, edited by George Richard Hibbard, Oxford UP, 2008, pp. 18-22.
- Author's last name, first initial. (Year published). Title.
- Shakespeare, W. (1996). Hamlet.
Cite web postings as you would a standard web entry. Provide the author of the work, the title of the posting in quotation marks, the web site name in italics, the publisher, and the posting date. Follow with the date of access.
Do not capitalize the words “act” and “scene” unless they are referring to a location in the play. When mentioning the act in general, the word remains lowercased.
When was Macbeth published?