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Shakespeare has established that Mercutio is a rather dirty-minded young rogue, cynical about love and sex, and inclined to find ways to ridicule and embarrass everyone he deals with, including his best friends, when he thinks they're being foolish or self-destructive or pursuing pleasures that don't include Mercutio.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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Shakespeare has established that Mercutio is a rather dirty-minded young rogue, cynical about love and sex, and inclined to find ways to ridicule and embarrass everyone he deals with, including his best friends, when he thinks they're being foolish or self-destructive or pursuing pleasures that don't include Mercutio.
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When Mercutio is killed in the second act, you're paralyzed in anger.
Debra Levine: Ballet's Angel Corella Looks Ahead ... and Back Debra Levine 2010
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It was then, also, that her father took the part of "Mercutio," for the first time.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various
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The other members of the cast all bring sharp strokes of individuality to their performances: Kevin O'Donnell's Mercutio, for instance, is drunken and despondent, while Sam Parrott's Benvolio is an immature wolf-whistler.
Love, Fresh and New Terry Teachout 2011
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Even by his own high standards, Terry King's fights are exceptional, not least in the way the big set-to between Tybalt and Mercutio starts at a level of lethal jokiness and rapidly escalates.
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Mercutio: I think the reasonable interpretation is that 6 years is a maximum limit.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Recalls of U.S. Senators Are Unconstitutional 2010
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The Capulets' ball becomes a ferociously Dionysiac wingding, and every opportunity is made to highlight the play's sexual imagery, not least in the performance of Jonjo O'Neill's brilliantly manic Mercutio.
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It was for Jonjo O'Neill who plays a show-stopping Mercutio in "Romeo" as well as Orlando in "As You Like It."
Curtain Rises on Shakespeare Summer Marshall Heyman 2011
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"It's actually quite useful for the character of Mercutio."
Curtain Rises on Shakespeare Summer Marshall Heyman 2011
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