Relationships
She treats Juliet as if she were her own daughter, and works for the Capulet family.
The Nurse
He vows to kill Romeo for crashing the Capulet’s party.
Tybalt
Romeo and Juliet is this type of play.
It is a tragedy.
This is William Shakespeare's birthplace.
Stratford-Upon-Avon
This hand gesture is what sparked the fight in Act I.
Biting the thumb
He is Romeo’s friend and advisor, and Romeo goes to him for help solving his problems.
Friar Lawrence
This is the fate that the prince has decreed will befall anyone else disturbing the peace in Verona.
They will be put to death.
The audience knows that Juliet is not dead, but Romeo does not know.
This is dramatic irony.
Anne Hathaway
This is how long the whole play took.
5 days (from Sunday to Thursday)
This is the reason that Romeo and Rosaline are not together.
She wants to remain chaste.
This is the reason that the Capulets and the Montagues hate each other.
Nobody knows. The feud is ancient.
With age comes wisdom, but the young won’t want to listen to it.
This is a theme.
This was Shakespeare's cause of death.
He had a stroke.
This is why Friar John couldn’t deliver the letter to Romeo.
He was trapped in quarantine.
This is the reason that Juliet doesn’t want to marry Paris.
She is already married to Romeo.
This is the first person to die in the play.
Mercutio
This is the number of lines in a sonnet.
There are 14 lines.
These are the dates of Shakespeare’s birth and death.
April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616
This is one of the things that Juliet fears will happen after she drinks the potion.
She will wake too early, suffocate, or go mad. (She is conspicuously NOT afraid to die.)
These are the two characters who are related to the Prince.
Mercutio and Paris
Why was Romeo only banished and not put to death after killing Tybalt?
He avenged the Prince's cousin's murder.
This poetic meter is written to mimic a heartbeat.
This is Iambic Pentameter.
This is the company of players who first hired Shakespeare as an actor.
Lord Chamberlain's Company of Players
This queen LOVED Shakespeare’s plays and went to see them frequently.
Queen Elizabeth I