You need to tell your reader the source of your quotations from the play. The first such citation can be a footnote or endnote or, in a brief essay like the ones you write in Lit 131, it can be parenthetical, thus: (A Midsummer Night's Dream, ed. Wolfgang Clemen [New York: Signet Classic, 1963], 2.1.81.) Subsequent citations should only indicate act, scene, and line numbers--in that order--parenthetically following the quotation, thus: (2.1.82-85).
Quote accurately. Observe the distinction between verse and prose. If you want to change Shakespeare's language so that it fits the context of your own syntax, use a pair of square brackets to indicate the change. For instance, in Othello Iago says that "were [he] the Moor [he] would not be Iago" (1.1.54).
Your essays should reflect the direct confrontation between you and Shakespeare's text; there is no requirement for you to use other sources. If you do use any sources, including the introductions or essays in your edition of the plays, you must acknowledge the fact in a footnote or endnote. (Anything you find on the Internet is a source, and must be cited.) Direct quotations must be in quotation marks. Paraphrases or allusions to other writers' work must also be acknowledged.
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