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If someone uses the name of a book/object with punctuation in it, does one need to capitalize the word after?

Do I write:

In the book Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the main character...

Or

In the book Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The main character...

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    Are you starting a new sentence?
    – tchrist ♦
    Commented Sep 23, 2023 at 23:58
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    In other words - no, because the question mark is part of the title and doesn't affect the grammar of the sentence.
    – Kate Bunting
    Commented Sep 24, 2023 at 13:59
  • There was a similar question about an even gnarlier title; it was closed as opinion-based (and the only answer agrees it's a matter of opinion) but everyone agrees on lower-casing the following word. Here's the converse question about what to do if it's at the end of a sentence.
    – Stuart F
    Commented Sep 26, 2023 at 13:06

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