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Page 40
... Mercutio is a foil to Romeo the lover , and to Tybalt the swords- man ; Shakespeare invents the scene in which the young gallants prepare to enter the Capulet feast and Mercutio delivers his fantastic speech about Queen Mab . The ...
... Mercutio is a foil to Romeo the lover , and to Tybalt the swords- man ; Shakespeare invents the scene in which the young gallants prepare to enter the Capulet feast and Mercutio delivers his fantastic speech about Queen Mab . The ...
Page 68
... Mercutio from Benvolio and , more importantly , from Romeo , is the sheer violence and lewdness of his mind . The anticipation of Romeo's ' It is my lady , O it is my love ! / O that she knew she were ! ' in Mercutio's aggressively ...
... Mercutio from Benvolio and , more importantly , from Romeo , is the sheer violence and lewdness of his mind . The anticipation of Romeo's ' It is my lady , O it is my love ! / O that she knew she were ! ' in Mercutio's aggressively ...
Page 69
... Mercutio's other , shrewder insights into the way of the world . Just before Romeo's entrance in this same scene Mercutio had given a bravura demonstration of the twinned arts of fencing and dancing , ebulliently cavorting with the old ...
... Mercutio's other , shrewder insights into the way of the world . Just before Romeo's entrance in this same scene Mercutio had given a bravura demonstration of the twinned arts of fencing and dancing , ebulliently cavorting with the old ...
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