Integrate the dialogue into your essay text, if you are quoting a single character in a play and the dialogue is less than four lines long. Place double quotation marks around the dialogue and cite a prose citation after the second quotation mark. Place all punctuation after the citation except for exclamation marks and question marks; place these within the quotation marks.
Create a block quotation for more than four lines of dialogue, from a single character. Create a new paragraph that is indented 1 inch from the left margin of the page. Don’t include quotation marks, and put your prose citation after the final punctuation mark of the quote.
Follow block quotation guidelines, if you are quoting dialogue with multiple characters. When the dialogue switches to a different character, begin a new line that is indented 1 inch from the left margin. Place a prose citation after the last line of dialogue.
Follow poetry quotation guidelines if you are citing a single line of verse. Integrate the dialogue into your text, and place double quotation marks around the line of verse. Place a verse citation immediately after the second quotation mark.