Thursday, June 22, 2023

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

Strike, drum.

 

Benvolio

Romeo and Juliet                   Act I, Scene iv, Line 113

 

Here is the last line of the scene, and then these guys march off to the party at Capulets. To be clear, there actually is no drum involved, and we can assume that one of the guys pretends to play a drum. The stage direction says They march about the stage and stand to one side.

They’d been discussing dreams for a large part of this scene, with Mercutio going on and on about dreams. Romeo seems to think that his own dream the previous night is a harbinger of something bad, but he doesn’t say, or doesn’t know exactly what.

Anyway, they end the dream talk to get to the party.


So what do we think this guy's dreaming about? Probably about how he loves to bug Sam. 
Oh yah, he can be a pesky little fella. 


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