Template:Folger Shakespeare/doc

This template is for creating short inline citations to William Shakespeare's plays in the digital editions made available by the Folger Shakespeare Library. It's patterned on {{sfn}} and meant to be used as an inline citation in the text of articles that need to reference the plays' text as a primary source.

Usage

{{sfd|play|act|scene|line}}

All arguments are required.

The first positional (unnamed) argument is one of the known names for the play configured in Module:Folger Shakespeare/plays. For most plays this is just the same as the Wikipedia article, but for some plays there are convenience aliases like 3H6 for Henry VI, Part 3.

The second and third arguments are the numerical act and scene, both given as arabic (not roman) numerals.

The last argument is either a single line number, or a line number range with the start and end of the range delimited with either a normal hyphen (-) or an en-dash (–). Em-dashes are not supported and the dash is always unspaced.

Examples

• {{sfd|1H4|4|2|12–13}} →
• "To be or not to be"{{sfd|Hamlet|3|1|64}} → "To be or not to be"

Supported plays

This is the list of plays the template currently knows about, and the keys you can use to refer to each one. The list is generated from the module's configuration and will update automatically. If you've changed the configuration and this list is not up to date either wait a little or use a null edit or page purge to force it to update.

Play	Aliases
All's Well That Ends Well	All's Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra	Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It	As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors	The Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus	Coriolanus
Cymbeline	Cymbeline
Hamlet	Hamlet
Henry IV, Part 1	Henry IV, Part 1 1H4
Henry IV, Part 2	Henry IV, Part 2 2H4
Henry V	Henry V H5
Henry VI, Part 1	Henry VI, Part 1 1H6
Henry VI, Part 2	Henry VI, Part 2 2H6
Henry VI, Part 3	Henry VI, Part 3 3H6
Henry VIII	Henry VIII H8
Julius Caesar	Julius Caesar
King John	King John
King Lear	King Lear
Love's Labour's Lost	Love's Labour's Lost LLL
Macbeth	Macbeth
Measure for Measure	Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice	The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor	The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream	A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing	Much Ado About Nothing
Othello	Othello
Pericles	Pericles
Richard II	Richard II R2
Richard III	Richard III R3
Romeo and Juliet	Romeo and Juliet RJ R&J
The Taming of the Shrew	The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest	The Tempest
Timon of Athens	Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus	Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida	Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night	Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona	The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen	The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Winter's Tale	The Winter's Tale

Use in references section

When you use short citations inline with {{sfn}} you need a full citation in the "References" section. This template generates citations that are self-contained (they generate external links, not links to a full citation) but this would be inconsistent with other short citations used in many articles. It is therefore good practice to include an explanatory text at the start of the "References" sections like this:

All references to the text of Romeo and Juliet are to the Folger Shakespeare Library's digital edition edited by Barbara Mowat, Paul Werstine, Michael Poston, and Rebecca Niles.

Alternately, you can create a long reference like…

• Shakespeare, William (n.d.). Mowat, Barbara; Werstine, Paul; Poston, Michael; Niles, Rebecca (eds.). Romeo and Juliet. Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library.

…using the code:

* {{cite book
|title = Romeo and Juliet
|last = Shakespeare
|first = William
|author-link = William Shakespeare
|editor1-last = Mowat
|editor1-first = Barbara
|editor2-last = Werstine
|editor2-first = Paul
|editor3-last = Poston
|editor3-first = Michael
|editor4-last = Niles
|editor4-first = Rebecca
|url = https://folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/romeo-and-juliet/
|date = n.d.
|location = Washington, D.C.
|publisher = [[Folger Shakespeare Library]]
}}

Update |title= and |url= as needed.

Limitations

The Folger Shakespeare digital texts are not, despite early assurances, very stable. The Folger doesn't provide persistent identifiers for the lay texts, and act/scene/line targets do not come with API-like guarantees. That means every time they redesign their website this template needs to be updated. Thankfully the concept of looking up play, act, scene, and line is pretty fundamental and universal so it's unlikely they'll change the website in such a way that this template can't be updated to support it.

The template currently does not support linking to stage directions, speech prefixes, prologues, and similar. At least some of these may be possible to support in the future.

The template also currently doesn't support so-called Folger Through-Line Numbers (ftln). This is planned for the future, but hasn't been added yet.

It also does not support the narrative poems and the sonnets since these do not have acts or scenes. The texts are available from the Folger so support for this is planned for the future. The template {{Folger inline}} is not subject to some of these limitations.

References

These references will appear in the article, but this list appears only on this page.