QUEERING THE PERFORMANCE: MERCUTIO AS AN EMBLEM OF NON-NORMATIVITY IN ROMEO AND JULIET
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https://doi.org/10.18305/scripta%20uniandra.v14i2.643Resumo
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is seen, more often than not, as a strictly normative tale of heterosexual love. A few of its queer aspects, however, have not gone unnoticed by directors and scholars. The present paper focuses on some of those aspects. More specifically, it is concerned with the portrayal of Mercutio in two filmic adaptations namely Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet (1968) and Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996). Borrowing concepts from performance and queer theory, this paper aims to investigate how the portrayal of the pivotal Mercutio brings out a potential queerness to the aforementioned performances.
KEYWORDS: Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare. Queer. Mercutio.
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DOI: 10.5935/1679-5520.20160022
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