Quoting a Play

Click on this link and scroll all the way to the bottom to see how to quote dialogue in a play:

http://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/writingcenter/upload/MLA%20In%20Text%20Citation%20of%20Poetry%20and%20Drama.pdf

Early on in the play “A Raisin in the Sun,” Walter explodes when Ruth refuses to

listen to his ideas:

RUTH. Eat your eggs, Walter.

WALTER. (Slams the table and jumps up) --DAMN MY EGGS--DAMN ALL THE

EGGS THAT EVER WAS!

RUTH. Then go to work.

WALTER. (Looking up at her) See--I’m trying to talk to you ‘bout

myself--(Shaking his head with the repetition)--and all you can say is

eat them eggs and go to work. (34)