In Mercutio's Queen Mab speech in the play Romeo and Juliet he says that lovers dream of love. He adds that courtiers dream of curtsies and lawyers dream of fees.
Fiery,bull-headed & very prejudiced. As you probably know,Juliet's cousin & his uncompromising nature led to HIS death,and indirectly to the deaths of the lovers,taking Mercutio along the way. Guess he would be a knife-carrier today.
Mercutio. According to Mercutio, Tybalt is "the very butcher of a silk button."
A Midsummer Night's Dream begins with two sets of lovers, Lysander and Hermia and Helena and Demetrius.
Romeo: I dream'd a dream to-night. Mercutio: And so did I. Romeo: Well, what was yours? Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo: In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.
You dream about what you care about.
Mercutio spins out a great long tale about Queen Mab, in the course of which he talks about how she makes different people dream about different things: lovers dream of love, courtiers dream of curtsies, lawyers dream of fees, ladies dream of kisses, soldiers dream of throat-cutting and so on.
Fiery,bull-headed & very prejudiced. As you probably know,Juliet's cousin & his uncompromising nature led to HIS death,and indirectly to the deaths of the lovers,taking Mercutio along the way. Guess he would be a knife-carrier today.
Mercutio. According to Mercutio, Tybalt is "the very butcher of a silk button."
Mercutio
A Midsummer Night's Dream begins with two sets of lovers, Lysander and Hermia and Helena and Demetrius.
Romeo: I dream'd a dream to-night. Mercutio: And so did I. Romeo: Well, what was yours? Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo: In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.
You dream about what you care about.
Lysander & Hermia
In Act I, scene iv of "Romeo and Juliet," Romeo is about to tell Mercutio about a dream that he had. Mercutio is quick to cut Romeo off and tell him about Queen Mab. According to Mercutio and the speech that he gives in this scene, Queen mab is the dream fairy -- she is the fairy who gives people their dreams and decides what they will dream about. There are several examples that are given within this speech -- for example women dream of kisses, priests dream of tithes, lawyers dream of money (fees), etc. Within this speech (toward the beginning) Mercutio also discusses how small this Queen Mab is.
According to Mercutio, the fairy queen, Queen Mab, is a fairy mid-wife. She is responsible for causing dreams. Mercutio is a character from Romeo and Juliet.
Queen mab was mention by Mercutio in scene vi, who was mocking about Romeo's believe in dreams.
Mercutio is the guy who blithers on about Queen Mab. This is in Act 1 Scene 4.