mercutio

• mercutios rude humour would have been popular with shakespeares audience
• in act 3 scene 1 mercutio dies
• shakespear uses tragic irony through the fatal scratch linking back to mercutios previous use of the word prick
• when mercutio dies he repeats prince escalus' words - "a plague o both your houses"
• mercutio uses puns to change romeos words into sexual innuendos
• his humour is full of death imagery - "ask for me tommorow and you shall find me a grave man"
• romeo is the accidental cause of mercutios death