By Harold Bloom
ISBN-10: 1604138130
ISBN-13: 9781604138139
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He improvises it on the way to Capulet’s party to display his wit. It is woven into the play the way a song is often fitted into a musical. Romeo comments that he has had disturbing dreams, which leads to a witty duel of words between him and Mercutio: Romeo: . . we mean well in going to this mask; But ’tis no wit to go. Mercutio: Why, may one ask? 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.
Go ask his name: if he be married. My grave is like to be my wedding bed. Her words sting with irony, for her grave will be her wedding bed precisely because Romeo is not married. The nurse returns and tells her, His name is Romeo, and a Montague; The only son of your great enemy. And Juliet says to herself, My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy. 136ff Embedded in this flowering of love is the problem of what actually constitutes identity, which Juliet proclaims two scenes later from her balcony.
She gallops night by night Through lovers’ brains, and then they dream of love; O’er courtiers’ knees, that dream on court’sies straight, O’er lawyers’ fingers, who straight dream on fees, O’er ladies’ lips, who straight on kisses dream, ................................. Sometime she gallops o’er a courtier’s nose, And then dreams he of smelling out a suit; And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig’s tail Tickling a parson’s nose as a’ lies asleep, Then dreams, he of another benefice: Sometime she driveth o’er a soldier’s neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats.