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What does it mean to quote a line in a play (MLA format)?

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When quoting a play in a paper does the line mean every individual line or each line or each line that the character says. For example would

Stella [noticing]:

Blache, you sit down and let me pour the drinks. I don't know what we've got to mix with. Maybe a coke's in the icebox. Look and see, honey, while I'm-

Would that be four line based on how much space it takes up or would it be one because it's one spoken line?

Also, if I wanted to quote from the stage direction should that be included in the line count?

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  1. The play is published in a book somewhere, right? Quote the lines from the book, and cite the book and page in the footnotes.  You might have a lot of footnotes using the same book, but different pages, depending where the quote was found in the book.

    I would quote stage direction as any other source from the book, because it's TW's writing, not mine.

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