Shakespeare
Characters
Quotes
Plot
Translate Me
100
The name of Shakespeare's theater and location
The Globe Theater in London, England
100
She took care of Juliet as if she is her own daughter.
The Nurse
100
"Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds, But fettle your fine joins 'gainst Thursday next, to go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church, or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither."
Lord Capulet
100
Where do Romeo and Juliet first meet?
The Capulet's party
100
"O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet."
Romeo, why are you Romeo? Forget your family's name, or if you won't say you love me and I'll forget I'm a Capulet.
200
The location of Shakespeare's birth
Stratford upon Avon in England
200
The last person to see Juliet alive.
Friar Laurence
200
"What if it be a poison, which the friar Subtly hath minster'd to have me d ead, Lest in this marriage he should be dishoner'd because he married me before Romeo?"
Juliet
200
What does Montague tell Capulet he will do at the end of the play when both of their children are dead?
Raise a golden statue of Juliet
200
"A plague of both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me: I have it."
I curse both of your houses. I am now food for worms (dead).
300
One of Shakespeare's royal fans
Queen Elizabeth
300
He was so poor that he sold illegal poison.
the apothecary
300
"Beguil'd, divorced, wronged, spited, slain! Most detestable death, by thee beguil'd, By cruel cruel thee quite overthrown! O love! O life! not life, but love in death!"
Count Paris
300
What is the nurse's advice when her parents demand her to marry Paris?
To forget about Romeo and do it
300
"He is a kinsman on the Montague, Affection makes him false, he speaks not true."
He's related to the Montagues, so he likes them and is lying for them.
400
the name of the poorer audience members who stood on the ground
the groundlings
400
I Mantua he tells Romeo that he's heard Juliet has died.
Balthasar
400
"But one, poor one, one poor and loving child, But one thing to rejoice and solace in, And cruel death hath catch'd it from my sight!"
Lady Capulet
400
According to Lord Montague, what caused Lady Montague's death?
Romeo's banishment
400
"Go home, be merry, give consent to marry Paris. Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone, let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber, take thou this vial."
Go home and act happy and say you'll marry Paris. Then tomorrow night don't let the nanny sleep with you in your room. Then, take this drink.
500
the three types of Shakespeare plays
comedies, histories, and tragedies
500
He does not get to deliver a letter from Friar Laurence to Romeo because he is stopped on his to help with an illness.
Friar John
500
"For all ths same, I'll hide me hearabout: His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt."
Balthasar
500
What are some of the materials that Romeo asks Balthasar to get for him when he hears that Juliet has died
Paper, ink, and a post horse
500
"Hold daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, which craves as desperate an execution as that is desperate which would marry Paris."
Hold on, I think there is hope, but it will need you to be as desperate as you claim to be about marrying Paris (suicidal).
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