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Mercutio's 'Plague On Both Of Your House'

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Because of Mercutio’s funny acting in the scenes, it best portrays Shakespeare’s intent. It uses a variety of humor such as the Montagues laughing and playing around with the nurse, and includes Mercutio being weird and acting silly in scenes where he jumps into the water and gurgles his mouth with the fountain, and where he falls on the stairs on one leg and then shouting “Plague on both of your houses”. The montagues playing around with the nurse shows how it includes humor in the movie and how Shakespeare would have represented it visually. When Mercutio shouts “Plague on both of your houses”, he is using dramatic foreshadowing because it talks about future death. The location of the event is at the town square. Tybalt walks in with fellow

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