![]() ![]() ![]() The joke is all the dirtier since, as we’ve already been told, Juliet is thirteen, and as the Nurse says, she “bade her come.” Yes, in this context that means what you think it means.) And she will go on and on like that-though perhaps nowhere more outrageously than in this scene. (Swearing on her maidenhead at twelve implies that she didn’t have one at thirteen we think “That can’t be much of an oath,” as we recall Sampson and Gregory’s byplay about maidenheads. You see right away why she’s one of Shakespeare’s most beloved characters: the very first words out of her mouth are a dirty joke. Nurse, where’s my daughter? Call her forth to me. ![]() In her first appearance she’ll be quiet and respectful and completely overshadowed by the play’s most vivid character, her Nurse: Meanwhile, back at Capulet House, it’s time to break the news to Juliet that she has a suitor. ![]()
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