Mercutio's 'Queen Mab' Speech

Mercutio's 'Queen Mab' Speech At the time Mercutio makes his famous "Queen Mab" speech in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, he and Romeo, together with a group of their friends and kinsmen, are on the way to a party given by their family’s arch-enemy, Lord Capulet. Their plan is to crash the party so that Romeo may have the opportunity to see his current love, Rosaline, whom they know has been invited to the …

…that hath the steerage of my course, / Direct my sail!" (I, iv, 112-13). His final words, "On, lusty gentlemen!", are to Mercutio and their other friends, but they might have been addressed to himself as well. It is his passion, his impetuosity, his lust, which will spell his doom—all of it foreshadowed in Mercutio’s "talk of dreams." <b>Works Cited:</b> <li>Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. New York: Penguin Books USA Inc., 1960, 1970.