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Use
editLinks 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
editVersion 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
editPlay 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
editUse numbers (1–9) for acts and scenes (not Roman numerals). For prologues, leave act and scene blank.
Line numbers
editAn 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)