Template:Shakecite/sandbox
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Use
[edit]Links to Shakespeare texts at Internet Shakespeare Editions at University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
This {{Shakecite | Play code | Version code | Act | Scene}}
Displays as
Play code Act.Scene Version
{{Shakecite|Ham|EM|3|1|}} -> Hamlet 3.1 (EM)
Version codes
[edit]Version codes
- M = Modern
- F1 = First Folio, 1623
- Q1 = Quarto 1, 1594
- Q2 = Quarto 2, 1600
- O1 = Octavo 1, 1595
- E = Editor's version
Note: Not all works are available in all versions, some works appear in combined versions, e.g. Hamlet in EM, Q1, Q1M, Q2, Q2M, F1, FM.
- List of all work codes: https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/
- Search form: https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/search.html
Play codes
[edit]Play codes are as follows:
- All's Well That Ends Well = AWW
- Antony and Cleopatra = Ant
- As You Like It = AYL
- The Comedy of Errors = Err
- Coriolanus = Cor
- Cymbeline = Cym
- Edward III = Edw
- Hamlet = Ham
- Henry IV, Part 1 = 1H4
- Henry IV, Part 2 = 2H4
- Henry the Fifth = H5
- Henry VI, Part 1 = 1H6
- Henry VI, Part 2 = 2H6
- Henry VI, Part 3 = 3H6
- Henry the Eighth = H8
- Julius Caesar = JC
- The History of Sir John Oldcastle – Old
- King John = Jn
- King John: A Burlesque = Abeckett
- King Lear = Lr
- King Lear (Adapted by Nahum Tate) = Tate-Lr_M
- The Tragedy of Locrine – Loc_F3
- The London Prodigal = LP_F3
- Love's Labor's Lost = LLL
- A Lover's Complaint = LC
- Macbeth = Mac
- The Merchant of Venice = MV
- The Merry Wives of Windsor = Wiv
- A Midsummer Night's Dream = MND
- Measure for Measure = MM
- Much Ado About Nothing = Ado
- Othello = Oth
- The Passionate Pilgrim – PP_O2
- Pericles = Per
- The Phoenix and the Turtle – PhT_Q1
- The Puritan – Pur_F3
- The Rape of Lucrece – Luc
- Richard II = R2
- Richard III = R3
- Romeo and Juliet = Rom
- The Taming of the Shrew = Shr
- The Tempest = Tmp
- Timon of Athens = Tim
- Titus Andronicus = Tit
- Troilus and Cressida = Tro
- Twelfth Night = TN
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona = TGV
- The Two Noble Kinsmen = TNK
- Venus and Adonis = Ven
- The Winter's Tale = WT
- A Yorkshire Tragedy = Yrk_F3
- Sonnets = Son (Note: Sonnets are linked to S:Shakespeare's Sonnets (1923) Yale/Text
Acts, scenes, and prologues
[edit]Use numbers (1–9) for acts and scenes (not Roman numerals). For prologues, leave act and scene blank.
Line numbers
[edit]An optional fifth parameter may be specified for a line number, or a range of line numbers separated by an en dash (–).
{{Shakecite|MV|F1|1|1|119–121}} -> The Merchant of Venice 1.1/119–121 (F1)