Template:RQ:Theobald Double Falshood

The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Theobald Double Falshood/documentation.

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Lewis Theobald's work Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers (1st edition, 1728), believed to be based on the lost play The History of Cardenio by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.

The template takes the following parameters:

• |chapter= – if quoting from one of the chapters indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:

As the above chapters are unpaginated, use |1= or |page= to specify the "page number" assigned by the Internet Archive to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://archive.org/details/doublefalshoodor00shak/page/n12/mode/1up, specify |page=12. ("George R." is also unpaginated, but the template is able to determine the URL.)

• |sig= or |signature=, and |verso= – as the prefatory material is unpaginated, |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, "signatures A3, verso – A4, 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 chapter name.
• |1= or |page=; or |pages= – mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
  • You must also use |pageref= to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

This parameter must be specified for the template to determine the introduction or the act number (I–V) quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.

• |scene= – mandatory in some cases: in most cases, if the page number is specified the template can determine the scene number quoted from. If the template is unable to do so, this parameter must be used to specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals, like this: |scene=i.
• |2=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage quoted from the work.
• |footer= – a comment on 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.

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Theobald Double Falshood|page=1|passage=Making my Death familiar to my Tongue / Digs not my Grave one '''Jot''' before the Date.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Theobald Double Falshood|1|Making my Death familiar to my Tongue / Digs not my Grave one '''Jot''' before the Date.}}
• Result:
  • 1727 December 24 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Lew[is] Theobald, W[illiam] Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers. , London: J. Watts, , published 1728, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:

    Making my Death familiar to my Tongue / Digs not my Grave one Jot before the Date.

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