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As You Like It
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Henry IV
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Merchant of Venice
Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Richard III
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Sonnets
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This Month's Romeo and Juliet Feature >>
Dreams and Foreboding...
Accompanying Fortune in Romeo and Juliet are dreams and forebodings. There is, to begin, Romeo's off-hand reference to having dreamed and Mercutio's rejoiner that his dream was that dreamers lie. This is followed by one of the most renowned set piece of the play, Mercutio's "Queen Mab" speech about the flights of fancy that take place in dreams under the aegis of Queen Mab and her entourage. Then, in the first lines of Act V, Romeo speaks of dreams that "presage some joyous news at hand." Ironically, such news (Friar Laurence's letter about the death potion ruse) is on the way, but it fails to reach Romeo in Time.