Queen Mab Speech

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Bevington, David: The Bantam “Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet” January 1980:

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Bloom, Harold : William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet - Bloom’s Notes

1996: 16

Boyce, Charles: “Shakespeare A to Z” The essential reference to his plays, his poems, his life, and times, and more.

This led Mercutio to deliver an intricate speech. Romeo feels it is too soon to enter Capulets’ festivity and fears some kind of consequence is about to take place. The passage of Queen Mab, is a montage of fairy lore, country superstition, and is probably a poetic invention by Shakespeare. Through the speech, Mercutio is trying to show Romeo just how unrealistic his love is for Rosaline. Describing Queen Mab as a ‘midwife’ who brings dreams to humans in a variety of social situations. One of Romeo’s friends, Mercutio teases Romeo unmercifully for not dancing. Romeo states he had a dream that foretold something was going to happen, what, he knew not. Romeo responds by telling Mercutio that he is talking nonsense, in turn Mercutio tells Romeo that dreams are nonsense.