Template:RQ:Kyd Spanish Tragedie

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Thomas Kyd's work The Spanish Tragedie (Fourth Quarto, 1602); the 1st edition (London: Edward Allde, for Edward White, 1592; →OCLC) is not currently available online. The template can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books (archived at the Internet Archive).

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |page= – mandatory: as the work is unpaginated, use this parameter to specify the "page number" assigned by Google Books ("GB") to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://books.google.com/books?id=EVtpAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP13, specify |page=13. This parameter must be specified to have the template determine the act number (I–IV) quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
• |act= – mandatory in some cases: in most cases, if the page number is specified the template will determine the act number quoted from. It is unable to do so if page 29, 42, or 85 is specified, in which case the act number must be manually specified in uppercase Roman numerals like this: |act=I.

• |sig= or |signature=, and |verso= – |sig= or |signature= can be used to specify the signature number quoted from, which is indicated at the bottom centre of some pages. If quoting from a verso (left-hand) page specify |verso=1 or |verso=yes; if |verso= is omitted, the template indicates that a recto (right-hand) page is quoted.
  • If a signature number is not indicated on a page, extrapolate it from the signature numbers before and after the page and enclose it in brackets using [ and ] For example, if the previous signature number is A3 and the next one is B, specify the missing signature number as |sig=[A4]: see the example below.
  • If quoting a range of signatures, for example, "signature A2, verso – A3, recto", use |sig= or |signature=, and |verso=, to specify the signature at the start of the range, and |sigend= or |signatureend=, and |versoend=, (if required) to specify the signature at the end of the range.
  • If this parameter is omitted, the template links the URL of the online version of the work to the act number.
• |2=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment about the passage quoted.
• |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

Signature specified

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Kyd Spanish Tragedie|sig=I2|verso=1|page=78|passage=And art thou come, ''Horatio'' from the deapth, / To aske for iuſtice in this vpper earth? / To tell thy father thou art vnreuengde, / To '''vvring''' more teares from ''Iſabellas'' eyes: / VVhoſe lights are dim'd vvith ouer-long laments.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Kyd Spanish Tragedie|sig=I2|verso=1|78|And art thou come, ''Horatio'' from the deapth, / To aske for iuſtice in this vpper earth? / To tell thy father thou art vnreuengde, / To '''vvring''' more teares from ''Iſabellas'' eyes: / VVhoſe lights are dim'd vvith ouer-long laments.}}
• Result:
  • c. 1587 (date written), [Thomas Kyd], The Spanish Tragedie:  (Fourth Quarto), London: W W for T Pauier, , published 1602, →OCLC, Act III, signature I2, verso:

    And art thou come, Horatio from the deapth, / To aske for iuſtice in this vpper earth? / To tell thy father thou art vnreuengde, / To vvring more teares from Iſabellas eyes: / VVhoſe lights are dim'd vvith ouer-long laments.

Signature not specified

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Kyd Spanish Tragedie|page=22|passage=The cauſe vvas mine, I might haue died for both: / My yeeres vvere '''mellovv''', his but young and greene, / My death vvere naturall, but his vvas forced.}}
• Result:
  • c. 1587 (date written), [Thomas Kyd], The Spanish Tragedie:  (Fourth Quarto), London: W W for T Pauier, , published 1602, →OCLC, Act I:

    The cauſe vvas mine, I might haue died for both: / My yeeres vvere mellovv, his but young and greene, / My death vvere naturall, but his vvas forced.