Searching the New Labyrinth: the Echoes of Mercutio’s Banter in Paul’s Cross Churchyard by Dabbs, T

“…In Act II, scene IV, of Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio sardonically references six romantic heroines, who, he asserts, Romeo wishes to place his own love interest above.1 In each case, an EEBO-TCP search shows that the names of the mythological women Mercutio mentions had a comeuppance in then printed works during the 1590s. …”