If the quote is four lines or less, insert it within the text of your paper, using quotation marks around it. For a prose play, cite the reference by using the author's last name and the page numbers. One example of an in-text citation for a prose play, appears this way: In "The Glass Menagerie" the reader sees Jim, the "gentleman caller," slowly draw Laura Wingfield out of her cocoon. When he accidentally breaks Laura's favorite glass animal, her response demonstrates her new-found confidence: "Oh, I don't have favorites - much. It's no tragedy. Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are." (Williams 613). The citation tells the reader that Tennessee Williams is the author of the play and the passage is from page 613.
Place a quote longer than four lines into block form by indenting 10 spaces from the left margin, and do not use quotation marks. Always have a lead-in, a short explanation of the quote and who is saying it. At the end of the quote, put the last name of the author and the page number in parentheses after the period.
Quote a passage that is a dialogue between two or more characters in a modern play in block form, which begins 10 spaces from the left margin of the text. Always have a lead-in before dialogue. Begin each part of the dialogue with the character's name in all capital letters and follow the name with a period and two spaces. Start the quotation and indent all remaining lines of that character's speech at least three spaces. After the dialogue ends, enter the author's last name and page number in parentheses.
For drama written in verse, such as Shakespeare, use a slash (/) to separate the lines within the text. Do not use page numbers for in-text citation; instead, cite by using the title of the play, the act, scene and line numbers with periods and a space separating each of these numbers. Arabic numbers (Macbeth 2. 1. 22-23) or Roman numerals (Macbeth II. i. 22-23), may be used. When the selection is longer than four lines, set it apart, breaking the lines as in the original text, but don't indent it as you would with a prose play. Finish with the title, act, scene and line numbers as with shorter selections.
Quote a passage that is a dialogue between two or more characters in a classic play, follow the same format as you do for a modern play, except for the citation at the end of the dialogue. Enter the act, scene and line numbers in parentheses. Put a period and a space after the act and the scene numbers. For instance, a passage from "Macbeth" would appear as follows:
MACBETH. This is a sorry sight. [Looking at his hands.]
LADY MACBETH. There's one did laugh in sleep, and one cried "Murder!"
That they did wake each other. I stood and heard them;
But they did say their prayers, and addressed them.
Again to sleep. (2. 2. 21-26)