How Shakespeare presents Mercutio, and how the character develops across the text: wit, Queen Mab, his mockery of love and Tybalt, and his curse on both houses.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'If love be rough with you, be rough with love', 'I see Queen Mab hath been with you', 'O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!', 'Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?', 'A plague o' both your houses!', 'you shall find me a grave man', 'They have made worms' meat of me'.
Mercutio's prose and puns as a contrast to Romeo's romantic verse, and his death as the turning point.
Eduqas's Shakespeare questions don't mark context: the extract question (15 marks) and the whole-play essay (20 marks, plus 5 for spelling, punctuation, vocabulary and sentence structures) both mark response and analysis of language, form and structure (AO1 and AO2). Use context only in a phrase that supports an interpretation, and say which question each worked paragraph practises.
