For example, you may write, “Prospero feels doomed by his decision, stating: ‘Hell is empty. ’”

For example, you may write, “In the play, Prospero refers to the temporality of life, noting: ‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on/and our little life is rounded with a sleep. ’”

For example, you may write, “The character Ariel tries to soothe with a song that describes fear as fleeting:Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made;Those are pearls that were his eyes:Nothing of him that doth fade,But doth suffer a sea-changeInto something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dongHark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell. "

For example, you may write: “The play’s first moment of betrayal involves two characters abandoning their authority figure:ANTONIO. Let’s all sink wi’ th’ king. SEBASTIAN. Let’s take leave of him. "

For example, you may write, “Prospero feels doomed by his decision, stating: ‘Hell is empty/and all the devils are here. ’ (1. 2. 15-16. )” An example with block quotes would be, “The play’s first moment of betrayal involves two characters abandoning their authority figure:ANTONIO. Let’s all sink wi’ th’ king. SEBASTIAN. Let’s take leave of him. (1. 1. 4-5)”

You can find a complete list of abbreviations for the titles of Shakespeare’s plays on Internet Shakespeare Editions: http://internetshakespeare. uvic. ca/Foyer/guidelines/abbreviations/. If you are only discussing one play by Shakespeare in your paper and you refer to the play once already in your paper, you do not need to include an abbreviation of the title in subsequent citations. For example, you may write a citation from Macbeth as, “A good example of foreshadowing is spoken by the second witch, ‘By the pricking of my thumbs,/Something wicked this way comes. ’ (Mac. 4. 1. 57-58)” Or, if you have already referred to the play once, you leave the “Mac” out of the citation, using just the numbers, “(4. 1. 57-58). ”

For example, you may write, “A good example of foreshadowing is spoken by the second witch, ‘By the pricking of my thumbs,/Something wicked this way comes. ’ (4. 1. 57-58. )” This means the quotation comes from Act 4, scene 1, lines 57-58.

For example, you may write, “In 4. 1, the second witch provides a few lines of foreshadowing. ”

For example, you may write, “Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. ”

For example, you may write, “Ed. Tucker Brooke” or “Ed. John Keene and Lawrence Mason. ”

For example, you may write, “New Haven, Yale University Press, 1947. ”

For example, the complete citation would be: “Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Ed. Tucker Brooke. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1947. Print. ”

For example, you may write, “Furness, Horace Howard, ed. The Tempest. By William Shakespeare. New York, Dover, 1964. Print. ”

For example, if you were citing an anthology with one volume, you would write, “Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. The Riverside Shakespeare. Ed. G. Blakemore Evans. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1974. 1306-42. Print. ” For an anthology with more than one volume, you would note the volume number you accessed: “Shakespeare, William. As You Like It. The Annotated Shakespeare. Ed. A. L. Rowse. Vol. 1. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, 1978. 334-89. Print. ”