Romeo and Juliet was the first of Shakespeare's actual plays that I encountered, too - I played incidental music for it in a school production in year nine, when I was 14.
I completely fell for Mercutio (the actress playing him was very talented). Completely and utterly. All those words! And all those puns! How could I not fall in love? I had the whole play memorised for about a year afterward; I still have most of Mercutio's lines memorised.
I wonder, now, if the other reason I fixated so much on Mercutio is that I always had to go home at the end of Act III because it was past my bedtime? I think a lot of Juliet's best lines are later in the play, and while I have grown to love Juliet, I've never really taken to Romeo...
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Date: 2010-08-03 11:44 pm (UTC)I completely fell for Mercutio (the actress playing him was very talented). Completely and utterly. All those words! And all those puns! How could I not fall in love? I had the whole play memorised for about a year afterward; I still have most of Mercutio's lines memorised.
I wonder, now, if the other reason I fixated so much on Mercutio is that I always had to go home at the end of Act III because it was past my bedtime? I think a lot of Juliet's best lines are later in the play, and while I have grown to love Juliet, I've never really taken to Romeo...