Romeo And Juliet: A Review

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for a sword?” In this line the mockery of Capulet is
obvious and appealing to the audience as it is direct.
Shakespeare is known to be fond of puns and uses them quite
regularly but he doesn't use them as often as the Elizabethan audience
expected him to. Shakespeare starts of the play with a lot of humour, with
the conversation between Sampson and Gregory, both of them using a lot of
puns. This type of punning, for example on the words “coals,” “collier,” “
choler,” “collar”, goes on till the end of the play. The Elizabethan
audience used to like puns and hence although Shakespeare has used many
vulgar puns, it still has a positive effect on the popularity of the play.
Although in the Act I Scene 1 there is a fight between the families the
humour in the scene makes us forget the seriousness of the fight.
Shakespeare manages to create a fair amount of humour in the play
by the creation of some humorous characters. These characters can be found
to be humorous in ...

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