Plot Order
What happened when?
1. Capulet chides Tybalt for wanting to challenge Romeo to a duel
2. Paris tells Lord Capulet he is interested in marrying Juliet.
3. Friar Lawrence agrees to marry Juliet to Romeo
4. Capulet chides Tybalt for wanting to challenge Romeo to a duel
5. Friar Lawrence “hears a noise” in the charnal house
4. Romeo learns he is to be exiled.
1. Paris tells Lord Capulet he is interested in marrying Juliet.
2. Capulet chides Tybalt for wanting to challenge Romeo to a duel
3. Friar Lawrence agrees to marry Juliet to Romeo
4. Romeo learns he is to be exiled.
5. Friar Lawrence “hears a noise” in the charnal house
1. The nurse suggests that Juliet marry Paris because Romeo “dare not come back to challenge [her]”.
1. Romeo suggests killing himself with a knife (first mention of suicide for Romeo).
4. Romeo kills Paris
3. Friar John is quarantined in a supposed plague house
5. Capulet rejects Paris’s offer to marry Juliet
1. Capulet rejects Paris’s offer to marry Juliet
2. Romeo suggests killing himself with a knife (first mention of suicide for Romeo).
3. The nurse suggests that Juliet marry Paris because Romeo “dare not come back to challenge [her]”.
4. Friar John is quarantined in a supposed plague house
5. Romeo kills Paris
1. Tybalt kills Mercutio
2. Friar Lawrence arrives at the Capulet charnal house
3. Juliet kills herself
4. Benvolio suggests Romeo attend the Capulet party
5. The ball at the Capulet house takes place
1. Benvolio suggests Romeo attend the Capulet party
2. The ball at the Capulet house takes place
3. Tybalt kills Mercutio
4. Friar Lawrence arrives at the Capulet charnal house
5. Juliet kills herself
1. Romeo is told by his servant, Balthasar, that Juliet is dead
2. Friar Lawrence asks Friar John to deliver a letter to Romeo about Juliet’s “death”
3. Mercutio and Benvolio find Romeo “a changed man”
4. Paris and Capulet make definite plans for the Juliet-Paris wedding
5. Juliet drinks the potion
6. Capulet moves the wedding date because Juliet, his “wayward girl is so reclaimed.”
1. Mercutio and Benvolio find Romeo “a changed man”
2. Paris and Capulet make definite plans for the Juliet-Paris wedding
3. Capulet moves the wedding date because Juliet, his “wayward girl is so reclaimed.”
4. Friar Lawrence asks Friar John to deliver a letter to Romeo about Juliet’s “death”
5. Romeo is told by his servant, Balthasar, that Juliet is dead
6. Juliet drinks the potion
1. Romeo and Juliet get married
2. Romeo kills Tybalt
3. Tybalt sends Romeo a letter
4. The nurse meets with Romeo to make plans for the wedding night
5. Romeo kills himself
1. The nurse meets with Romeo to make plans for the wedding night
2. Tybalt sends Romeo a letter
3. Romeo and Juliet get married
4. Romeo kills Tybalt
5. Romeo kills himself