[stylist] editing question

Thu Jan 6 00:33:44 UTC 2011

great idea.  Shakespeare is still powerful today.King Lear would be 
another good item to look at for that.
the www.about.com
website has  a huge amount of Shakespeare material online and resources.
jc

At 03:27 PM 1/5/2011, you wrote:
>You know Othello seems to do a lot of solilikwees, and sorry I 
>spelled that wrong, I know. One might download it or Hamlet from 
>bookshare as I am a little rusty on Shakespeare and hunt for this 
>type of speak-aloud in order to find this type of thing in the text. 
>Just a thought. Anita
>
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>>I think there may be instances in which both are necessary. For 
>>instance, if the character is thinking (in italics) and recalls 
>>something that was said to him/her and that passage is to be 
>>included as a direct quote, would you use quotes or apostrophe 
>>within the italics?
>>
>>Here's a real mind-nummer. Suppose a character is talking outloud 
>>(obviously in standard quotes) and recalls his/her own thought 
>>which itself includes a direct quote from someone else. My guess is 
>>that you'd have quotes around the whole thing, italics for the 
>>whole thought and apostrophes around the recalled direct quote.
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>>On 1/5/2011 2:01 PM, Judith Bron wrote:
>>>Perhaps the apostrophe approach is outdated.  Perhaps that style 
>>>stopped with Dickens.  At any rate, that's how I treated thoughts 
>>>or one character quoting another in my book.  Judith
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>>>>You know, I thought it should be ' as well but someone told me 
>>>>that was wrong.
>>>>Scratches her head,
>>>>Atty
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