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Romeo and Juliet

In Our Time

The Death of Mecutio Is the Death of Comedy

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Mercutio is one of the changes that shakespeare makes from his sources. Shakespeare massively expands him into this a role of really romeo's best friends. And i think we also sense, on an almost subliminal level that the death of mercutio is the death of comedy in this play. Some of the lines are famous, and are they the best? Can you hilight a few of them?

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