How To Quote A Play Mla

Direct quotes long quotes or dialogue Quotations four lines or more or dialogue are formatted with a block quote.

How to quote a play mla. Write the name of the first speaker in capital letters followed by a period and the speakers lines. When citing a play with numbered lines the MLA parenthetical citation should include the author name and the act scene and line numbers. Each part that you implement in a plays dialogue should start with an appropriate characters credentials or the name.

Please note that all pages in MLA should be double-spaced. Citing a Play Script. Names of the main performers Play Title italicized Publication Title italicized Editor.

Citing a Play. Her salt tears fell from her and softned the stones Sing willow. When quoting stage directions and dialogue together follow your sources use of parentheses or square brackets if you can.

To cite a play or musical properly identify as many of the following pieces of information as possible or applicable to your citation. For example if discussing Ibsens A Dolls House you might write. To cite a specific quotation from a play in MLA style place the quotation in quotation marks using slashes to indicate line breaks and end with a parenthetical citation of author name of play and then pageact for prose plays or actscenelines for verse.

Shakespeare quotations generally take the form of verse or dialogue. If your play was published as a stand-alone book it is the same as a MLA Book Citation. Ancient GreekRoman Works Cited.

MLA Format 9 th edition STRUCTURES. To quote up to three lines of verse from a play or poem just treat it like a normal quotation. Publisher edition if applicable publication year.