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Jules :
Omg like in Mulan where halfway through it stops being a musical! Your stomach just DROPS.
2026-03-04 22:35:49
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macpink5 :
It is so beautiful how all humor dies with mercutio. His last breath is a pun and then we don’t laugh again the rest of the play it’s wild and genius
2026-03-05 02:56:36
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charlleedodson :
If Shakespeare was taught like this, more people would like it
2026-03-05 16:21:42
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Dot :
Kinda like how hadestown it’s told it’s a tragedy over and over and if you know the story of Orpheus and Eurydice you know what’s going to happen but it still feels shocking everytime we hear Eurydice gasp
2026-03-05 13:47:31
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A_Social_Moth :
It's "omg they're young and in love, how cute, how silly🥰" until it's "omg they're young and in love, how compelling, how tragic😟" until it's "Oh. They should've been young and in love. And now they aren't.😶"
2026-03-04 23:23:34
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Megan :
Now I’m imaging people crashing out in an Elizabethan pub after the play 😆
2026-03-05 15:55:30
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Lear :
Here's my hot take. Mercutio causes the tragedy when he realizes he's in a romance. He picks the fight with Tybalt, he eggs it on after Romeo tries to deescalate the situation, and he dies cursing both their houses. He may be funny and charming, but he's a cynic about love. When he realizes this isn't a buddy-comedy, he makes it a tragedy
2026-03-05 18:12:40
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CJ Corl :
The hope that it doesn’t end badly even knowing it will is so true. Happens in Hadestown, with those who know the ending still wondering if it will change, and Herms acknowledging that we keep telling the story hoping that the next time, it won’t be a tragedy.
2026-03-05 05:19:42
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Lex Rosenberg :
I very much think the “things are a comedy until it’s not” is very effective. I was in Cabaret last fall, and my director straight up said the show is a comedy right up to the moment we see the armband on Ernst’s arm when he takes off the jacket. And it hits like a rock.
2026-03-06 07:08:35
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Isa🎀 :
“Take his money and give him Oregano” im crying 😭
2026-05-01 23:05:49
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christopherbergeron :
That must have totally messed folks up when they fist saw it. Would have been awesome.
2026-03-04 22:26:50
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Josh Romyn 🇨🇦 :
It’s a lot to ask, but can you pick up another degree and special interest in something I think I don’t care about? You are one of the best communicators on this app
2026-03-05 00:35:42
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myrrh larsen :
in my headcanon r&j’s first half was so funny that someone told shakespeare it NEEDED a prologue and he’s straight-up mocking that with bottom’s prologue suggestion in AMND
2026-03-06 17:01:11
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Sam :
It’s a sad song. It’s a sad tale, it’s a tragedy. It’s a sad song, but we sing it anyway.
2026-03-06 17:09:25
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Leachie :
This is exactly how the Titanic feels every time I watch it. The first hour of the movie I'm like "these are such endearing characters and awesome world building... what could the second half be about?" And them Im like... oh yeah... the Titanic
2026-03-27 15:15:51
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unicorndawn :
I’m a high school English teacher with a theater degree and I’m downloading your video to share with my students because this is such a great breakdown.
2026-03-07 05:10:42
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sean98🇦🇺 free Palestine :
Baz Lurman understood this aswell, it starts off funny and crazy and sweet and fun and romantic, and then it gets dark fast. that energy Baz is known for comes to a halt
2026-03-07 16:13:49
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emsbookcove :
It’s almost like hadestown….maybe Orpheus won’t turn around this time…but he always turns around
2026-03-06 18:18:48
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Kris / Shira :
It's very similar to Sweeny Todd. It's a comedy. Until the exact moment when it's absolutely no longer a comedy at all.
2026-04-29 21:18:06
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Cassie Bones :
my teacher told us before reading it that it was a Tragedy. full stop. it is not a romance bc Shakespeare didnt write romances. it's not a comedy even though it's funny for a large portion of the place. she enunciated this repeatedly as we read. at the end of the play, we had a test. one question was "what genre is R+J?" and roughly a quarter of every class (about 5 kids per class) chose Romance or Comedy still.
2026-05-02 15:22:11
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nerd.lauren :
When Mercutio and Tybalt stop being each other’s antithesis and start being each other’s mirrored experience, it should be a red flag experience even if you as the audience can’t identify exactly why
2026-03-05 02:57:03
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Roomba :
Tudor era “dead dove do not eat”
2026-03-07 04:34:29
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heathkirch :
So Mercutio is the comedy--the comedy dies... and that's when it suddenly switches to a tragedy.
2026-03-05 22:19:08
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Rosie 🍉 🌻 🍀 🌼 :
I think the 90’s movie did this perfectly. The campy comedy up till Mercutio dies and the whole atmosphere shifts. I was in awe.
2026-03-08 10:25:43
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Stephen King :
Shakespeare audience: “if we don’t see Mercutios body on stage he’s not really dead. Right? Right guys right? Noooo! 😢“
2026-03-05 14:22:08
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