"A plaque a' both your houses!"
Our group is acting out Act III, Scene 1. It's the best fight scene in the play. I get to act as Mercutio. Tybalt wants to fight Romeo, but Romeo won't, because he knows that Tybalt is now his cousin-in-law. So Mercutio starts to fight Tybalt, Romeo steps in to stop it. But when Romeo goes in to stop it, Mercutio is stabbed under his arm. Mercutio dies while cracking jokes and repeating the phrase," A plague a' both your houses!" Romeo, realizing that Mercutio was killed when he went in to stop it, gets revenge and kills Tybalt in a fight. After this, he knows they will come after him and try to arrest him, so he flees. Benvolio, who was there all along, but chose not to fight, tells the Prince what happened.
This scene has one of the funniest lines in the play. Benvolio is telling Mercutio not to start a fight. Mercutio replies by saying that Benvolio would start a quarrel for any little reason. "Thous wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes!" Very funny.
That's the summary of Act 3, scene 1 for you.
2 comments:
Ohhh. I loved Mercutio and I'm so sad that the comedian of the group is gone. He had the best death scene though, cracking jokes right up until he died. I'm going to miss his sarcasm, and I have a feeling that this is the point where the play starts to become a tragedy.
I wonder how you'd think that, Techy...
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