identify the speaker
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.”
Chorus
“O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
She hangs upon the cheek of night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear--
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.”
Romeo
(Bonus 100 if you can correctly identify about whom this line is spoken)
“My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me
That I should love a loathéd enemy.”
Juliet
(Bonus 300 if you can identify the loathéd enemy)
In 1600, biting this might get you in trouble.
Your thumb
“She is “yet a stranger to the world”
Juliet
“What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word
As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.”
Tybalt
(Bonus 200 if you can identify to whom this line is spoken)
“Go thither, and with unattainted eye,
Compare her face with some that I shall show,
And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.”
Benvolio
(Bonus 200 if you can identify to whom this line is spoken)
“What, dares the slave
Come hither covered with an antic face
To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
Now, by the stock and honor of my kin,
To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.”
Tybalt
(Bonus 200 if you can identify about whom these lines are spoken)
“Verona brags of him to be a virtuous and well-governed youth”
Romeo
(Bonus 200 if you can identify who says this about Romeo)
unintentionally invites Montagues to a Capulet party
servingman
“Three civil brawls bred of an airy word
By thee, Old Capulet, and Montague,
Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets..”
Prince
“Well in that hit you miss. She’ll not be hit
With Cupid’s arrow. She hath Dian’s wit,
And in strong proof of chastity well armed
From love’s weak childish bow she lives uncharmed.”
Romeo
(Bonus 300 if you can identify who is spoken about)
“I fear too early, for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night’s revels……..
But he that hath the steerage of my course
Direct my sail. On, lusty gentlemen.”
(Bonus 300 if you can explain what he decides to do despite his misgivings)
this character’s advice to “examine other beauties” seems foolish to Romeo
Benvolio
This character's temper almost boils over at the party
Tybalt
“Towards him I made, but he was ‘ware of me
And stole into the covert of the wood.
I, measuring his affections by my own.....
...Pursued my humor, not pursuing his,
And gladly shunned, who gladly fled from me.”
Benvolio
(Bonus 400 if you can identify to whom this is spoken)
“Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,
O anything of nothing first create.
O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,
Still-waking sleep that is not what it is.”
Romeo
“Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes
With nimble soles. I have a soul of lead
So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.”
Romeo
(Bonus 500 if you can identify to whom this line is spoken)
Masters of trash talk, their words start a fight
Samson & Gregory
this character was glad Romeo missed “the fray”
Lady Montague
“And private in his chamber pens himself,
Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out,
And makes himself an artificial night.”
Montague
“This night I hold an old accustomed feast,
Whereto I have invited many a guest
Such as I love, and you among the store,
One more, most welcome, makes my number more.”
Capulet
(Bonus 500 if you can identify to whom this line is spoken)
(*Another bonus 500 if you can identify what 2 words the speaker is "punning" with here)
“Sin from my lips? O, trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.”
Romeo
(Bonus 500 if you can identify to whom this is spoken)
(*Bonus 500 if you can identify how this "sin" is transferred)
loves to tell jokes over and over and over
Mercutio
This character is a "man of wax"
Paris
(Bonus 500 if you can identify who says that Paris is a "man of wax")