Queen Mab Poster in groups of 1-3

Queen Mab Poster in groups of 1-3
HA English 9
OReilly
30 participation points 10 essay points

Read I.iv.58-100, Mercutio’s speech describing Queen Mab. Pay particular attention to the language pertaining to Queen Mab and her wagon.

Based on your reading, create or find a rendering of Queen Mab and her wagon. Present your rendering on a large poster. (5 points)

Label at least ten parts of the image with labels such as "Drawn with a team of atomies" (I.iv.63).
Use Shakespeare’s exact language from Romeo and Juliet with the act, scene, and line number as shown in the preceding sentence. (10 points)

Include on your poster a clever title, your names, your roles, and period number. Roles are the following: artist, scribe, analyst, writer (5 points) See the back of this handout for a guide to how to create titles.

Write a paragraph, that describes why Mercutio  gives his Mab speech speech. Why would he say this long, involved, and fanciful diatribe to Romeo? As always, have a clear topic sentence, at least two ideas (yellows), and plenty of examples, explanations, and excerpts (reds) for each key idea. (10 points)

Beautifully assemble the above elements onto a large, gorgeous poster with clear lettering (5 points)

Here is a sample paragraph. Colour code this paragraph. Turn this entire rubric in, taped to the back of your poster (5 Points):

Mercutio’s Mission: Curing Romeo of Romance

    In act one of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio attempts to cheer up the lovesick Romeo by describing Queen Mab, a fairy responsible for bringing dreams to people. Romeo mentions he has a dream, prompting Mercutio to playfully denounce dreams using imagery of different characters dreaming of the objects of their own desires. In other words, dreams foretell nothing: they are merely the products of desires. Mercutio explains "she gallops night by night through lovers’ brains, and then they dream of love"  (I.iv.75-79), but he goes on to say "lawyers will dream of "fee’s" because fees are a lawyer’s desire. Moreover, dreams, claim Mercutio, are more than reflections of desires; they are worthless images, self-indulgent fantasies in the dreamer’s mind. Mercutio bluntly declares that dreams are "the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy" (I.iv.104-105). Mercutio is hoping to convince Romeo of the irrelevance of Romeo’s dreams of Roseline and true love and thereby cure Romeo of his woes and sorrows.