This page will provide you information on referencing and in-text referencing plays in the following categories:
Author's surname, author's initial, most recent date of publication, play title, Publisher, location.
Example:
Shakespeare, W, 2001, The Taming of the Shrew, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
In-text reference
(Author surname, date: act, scene, lines)
Example:
(Shakespeare 2001; 1, 2, 62-73)
Katherina and Bianca have a disagreement before Bianca is sent back to the house (Shakespeare 2001, 1, 1, 78-83).
"I know she is an irksome, brawling scold" (Shakespeare 2001, 1, 2, 181).
OR
Petruchio in Shakespeare (2001) says, "I know she is an irksome, brawling scold" (1, 2, 181).
Author's surname, author's initial, most recent date of publication, play title, Publisher, location.
Example:
Miller, A, 2003, The Crucible, Penguin Books, Melbourne.
In-text reference
(Author surname, date: act, page)
Example:
(Miller 20013; 1, 45)
Mary threatened the girls not to speak a word of what they had done in the forest. (Miller 2003, 1, 27).
"I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!" (Miller 2003, 1, 27).
OR
Mary Warren threatens her friends saying, "I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!" (2003, 1, 27).