This stops Friar John from delivering Friar Lawrence's letter to Romeo.
He's in a place with the plague and isn't allowed to leave.
100
This character can be described as a peace-maker or calm.
Benvolio
100
"These violent delights have violent ends"
Friar Lawrence
100
This is a hint the author gives about what's coming next, without telling you exactly.
Foreshadowing
100
The theatre where Shakespeare's plays were performed is called this.
The Globe
200
This was Romeo's punishment for killing Tybalt.
Banishment
200
This character has a quick temper and starts fights.
Tybalt
200
"O! I am fortune's fool."
Romeo
200
This is a speech a character gives that other characters can't hear--he/she is talking or thinking to him/herself.
Soliloquy
200
This is the town where Shakespeare was born.
Stratford
300
Friar Lawrence helps Romeo and Juliet for this reason.
He thinks their marriage will end the feud.
300
This character changes from one moment to the next. He can be fun and crazy, then he can get into a fight.
Mercutio
300
"Wherefore art thou Romeo"
Juliet
300
This is a long speech a character gives that other characters can hear.
Monologue
300
This is the meter in which Shakespeare often wrote.
Iambic Pentameter
400
The Prince decides not to have Romeo killed for this reason.
Mercutio and the Prince are related, and the Prince doesn't want to get involved in the feud.
400
This character wants to end the feud between families and also gives lots of advice.
Friar Lawrence
400
"Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,
Profaners of the neighbor-stained steal,--"
Prince Escalus
400
The prologue is this type of poem.
Sonnet
400
This is the city Shakespeare went to to act and work.
London
500
These are two things Juliet is afraid of when she drinks the potion.
She won't wake up.
She'll wake up too soon and have to marry Paris.
Friar Lawrence gave her poison instead to cover up marrying her without her parents knowing.
500
This character talks a lot and says a lot of funny but crude things. He/she tries to help Romeo and Juliet.
Nurse
500
"Part, fools!
Put up your swords; you know not what you do."