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In plays written ten years or so after Romeo and Juliet , Shakespeare uses omissions both of verbs and of nouns to great dramatic effect. Shakespeare plays with language so often and so variously that entire books are written on the topic.

Here we will mention only two kinds of wordplay, puns and metaphors. A pun is a play on words that have more than one meaning. In other places in this scene, as throughout the play, words are used so that the second meaning is implied but not spelled out. When, to take one of hundreds of examples, at 1. In the glosses to the text, puns of this sort are often indicated by numbered meanings—e. A metaphor is a play on words in which one object or idea is expressed as if it were something else, something with which it is said to share common features.

For instance, when Romeo meets Juliet at the dance, and says, as he touches her hand 1. Metaphors are often used when the idea being conveyed is hard to express, and the speaker is thus given language that helps to carry the idea or the feeling to his or her listener—and to the audience. The dialogue is written to be spoken by actors who, at the same time, are moving, gesturing, picking up objects, weeping, shaking their fists.

We must learn to be alert to such signals as we stage the play in our imaginations. First Citizen Up, sir, go with me; I charge thee in the princes name, obey. O my brother's child! O cousin! O, the blood is spilt O my dear kinsman! Prince, as thou art true, For blood of ours, shed blood of Montague. O cousin, cousin! BENVOLIO Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo's hand did slay; Romeo that spoke him fair, bade him bethink How nice the quarrel was, and urged withal Your high displeasure: all this uttered With gentle breath, calm look, knees humbly bow'd, Could not take truce with the unruly spleen Of Tybalt deaf to peace, but that he tilts With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast, Who all as hot, turns deadly point to point, And, with a martial scorn, with one hand beats Cold death aside, and with the other sends It back to Tybalt, whose dexterity, Retorts it: Romeo he cries aloud, 'Hold, friends!

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