Library of Formatting Examples:Drama/12A

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[blank line] [blank line] [blank line] [blank line] LITERATURE <sc>A Comedy By Arthur Schnitzler</sc> [blank line] [blank line] [<sc>Scene</sc>: <i>Moderately well, but quite inexpensively furnished apartments occupied by Margaret. A small fireplace, a table, a small escritoire, a settee, a wardrobe cabinet, two windows in the back, entrances left and right.</i> <i>As the curtain rises, Clement, dressed in a modish, tarnished-gray sack suit, is discovered reclining in a fauteuil near the fireplace. He is smoking a cigarette and perusing a newspaper. Margaret is standing at the window. She walks back and forth, finally goes up directly behind Clement, and playfully musses his hair. Evidently she has something troublesome on her mind.</i>] <sc>Clem.</sc> [<i>reading, seizes her hand and kisses it</i>]. Horner's certain about his pick and doubly certain about mine; Waterloo five to one; Barometer twenty-one to one; Busserl seven to one; Attila sixteen to one. <sc>Marg.</sc> Sixteen to one! <sc>Clem.</sc> Lord Byron one and one-half to one--that's us, my dear. <sc>Marg.</sc> I know. [*** Remainder of text omitted.]

Abbreviated speaker names

Here speaker names are abbreviated and so the associated period goes inside the small caps tags. (It would go inside anyway as a complete "sentence".) If a colon were present, it would go outside the markup, as it has for the beginning of the scene.

Stage directions

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