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Quoting Drama in an Essay

AP Literature Ms. Bilskemper. Quoting Drama in an Essay. First and Foremost…. Make sure you copy down the quotation directly from an accurate source! After taking it directly from the source, then you can manipulate it if you need to add words, take out words, combine thoughts, etc.

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Quoting Drama in an Essay

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  1. AP Literature Ms. Bilskemper Quoting Drama in an Essay

  2. First and Foremost… • Make sure you copy down the quotation directly from an accurate source! • After taking it directly from the source, then you can manipulate it if you need to add words, take out words, combine thoughts, etc.

  3. Shorter verses • If the verse is one to four lines long, you should use the line division symbol (/) to indicate the beginning of the next line • As Bernardo triumphantly proves the reality of the ghostly apparition, he exclaims, “How now, Horatio! you tremble and look pale: / Is not this something more than fantasy?” (Hamlet 1.1.68-9).

  4. Longer verses • If your verse runs longer than four lines, you must write the lines one below the other as you do when you write poetry, indenting and single spacing it. • Horatio, the trusted academic and doubtful friend, begins to accept the reality of the ghostly apparition and answers that it does eerily resembles the old king Hamlet: As thou art to thyself. Such was the very armour he had on When he th' ambitious Norway combated. So frown'd he once when, in an angry parle, He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice. 'Tis strange. (Hamlet 1.1.75-80)

  5. That pesky prose… • If you are quoting prose, then there is no need for line divisions. • To effectively represent the quote, first provide the contextual relevance of the quote and then proceed to quote the passage. • Hamlet is apt to address Ophelia in prose - perhaps to suggest his antic disposition and frustration with humanity in general; during one heated encounter, Hamlet vengefully retorts to Ophelia’s claims of love by commanding Ophelia “Get thee to a nunnery! Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me” (Hamlet 3.1.1814-5).

  6. Other stuff to remember… • Always reference the person who is speaking before you provide a quotation • If you are quoting a conversation, break it apart and provide the context/speaker • In response to Hamlet’s command for Ophelia to “Get thee to a nunnery!”, Ophelia cries to the heavens for help to cure Hamlet’s supposed madness: “O, help him, you sweet heavens![…] O heavenly powers, restore him!” (Hamlet 3.1.1815,1826,1833). • OR….

  7. Some more stuff… • Explain the context of the conversation going on (using complete sentences), introducing the quoted conversation with a colon(:) • Even before Rosencrantz and Guildenstern admit they are spies, Hamlet catches on, ironically seeming maniacal to them, but sane and sly to the reader: HAMLET: I do not well understand that. Will you play upon this pipe? GUILDENSTERN: My lord, I cannot. HAMLET: I pray you. GUILDENSTERN: Believe me, I cannot. HAMLET: I do beseech you. GUILDENSTERN: I know, no touch of it, my lord. HAMLET: It is as easy as lying. Govern these ventages with your fingers and thumbs, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music. Look you, these are the stops. (Hamlet 3.2.2231-9)

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