...Joseph A. Porter Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Joseph A. Porter Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Canonization of Heterosexuality Relations between Marlowe and Shake­ speare, particularly as manifested in the character of Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, serve as an index...

... of trial and error pattern before they assume more definite roles in their deaths Part of this confusion, especially in Romeo, is seen in what the play views as an immature homosexual emphasis reflected not only in the imagery but also in his relationship with Mercutio. This boyish Mr. Traci, author...

..., it can level criticism, almost reduce it to cliches. The idea of a contrast between fortune and prov­ idence in Fortune s Foot-ball; or, the Adventures of Mercutio is a good deal more provocative. One wonders if behind the formulas and stereo­ types and incipient violence of these fictional worlds...

... s Tale in the same series. Joseph A. Porter is the author of The Drama of Speech Acts: Shake­ speare s Lancastrian Tetralogy (1979), Shakespeare s Mercutio: His History and Drama (Chapel Hill, 1988), and articles on Shakespeare and speech-act theory. He teaches at Duke University. Eve Kosofsky...

...; or, the Story of Azem} does not come to life, suggests that no matter how interesting this fiction may be in its cultural context, it can level criticism, almost reduce it to cliches. The idea of a contrast between fortune and prov­ idence in Fortune s Foot-ball; or, the Adventures of Mercutio is a good...

... of sorts, but not one who will uncover too much and thereby speed progress; he must be a man docile enough to demand no strenuous life of his own, even when he is on his own, for it is self-evident that a passionate companion, like Mercutio or Enobarbus, would crowd Hamlet s style and lead to complications...

... with Mercutio. His praise of Katherine Ann Porter carries this same burden: Exploration of Value: Warren s Criticism 513 There is the same paradoxical problem of definition, the same delicate balancing of rival considerations, the same scrupulous development of competing claims to attention and action...

... to that season Wherein our Saviour s birth is celebrated (I, i, 158) but also Shakespeare s handling of the revenge code in his other works. Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Hamlet are tragedies precisely be­ cause the revenge code unjustly inflicts death upon such people as Mercutio and Paris, Bianca...

... must condemn their speaker unless we disagree with the Elizabethans upon the value of a personal code of honor. Falstaff is clearly deficient in this prime attribute. More difficult to see is that Hotspur s honor is not the ideal goal either. Hotspur, like Mercutio, is one of Shakespeare s most attrac­...

... difference between an author s intention and a work s intention. I believe that such a difference exists, that an author can have one intention for an episode or a character and have the episode or character get away from him. I believe that Shylock in The Mer­ chant of Venice, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet...