Context Revision
The place where Shakespeare was from?
England
JULIET TO ROMEO:
“This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”
Juliet wishes that their young love flourishes by the time they meet again
Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!
I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday,
Or never after look me in the face.
Speak not; reply not; do not answer me.
My fingers itch.—Wife, we scarce thought us
blessed
That God had lent us but this only child,
But now I see this one is one too much,
And that we have a curse in having her.
Out on her, hilding!
Lord Capulet (Act 3, Scene 5)
"Thy Drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die"
Romeo (Act 5, Scene 6)
"Oh Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo"
Juliet (Act 2, Scene 2)
The names of the two families associated with Romeo and Juliet?
Capulets and Montagues
ROMEO SOLILOQUY
“O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright.”
He considers Juliet’s beauty to be so great that she could teach the torches how to burn bright; her beauty emits radiance that overpowers the bright light of a torch and hence she can show the torches how to burn bright.
"Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach?
Speak, nephew, were you by when it began?"
Lord Montague (Act 1, Scene 1)
"Now, by the stock and honor of my kin,
To strike him dead I hold it not a sin."
Romeo (Act 1, Scene 5)
"A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows. Doth with their death bury their parents' strife"
Prologue/Narrator
Using similar ideas and plot points to convey similar meanings through a modern interpretation.
ROMEO TO PARIS:
“Tempt not a desperate man”
Romeo warns Paris to never tempt someone who is distressed with violence or else they will react violently
"But, an you will not wed, I'll pardon you!
Graze where you will you shall not house with me.
Look to 't; think on 't. I do not use to jest"
Lord Capulet (Act 3, Scene 5)
"What, ho! You men, you beasts,
That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
With purple fountains issuing from your veins:
On pain of torture, from those bloody hands
Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground"
Prince (Act 1, Scene 1)
“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow"
Juliet (Act 2, Scene 2)
The reason why "Romeo and Juliet" and many other Shakespearean texts are considered a 'tragedy'?
The main character (the title of the play) will die.
JULIET
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”
Juliet has fallen in love with Romeo who belongs to the family of their rivals and his name makes it very difficult for them to be together
"Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night;
Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath"
Lord Montague (Act 5, Scene 3)
"They have made worms' meat of me"
Mercutio (Act 3, Scene 1)
"This love that thou hast shown
Doth add more grief to too much of mine own.
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes;
Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet"
Romeo (Act 1, Scene 1)
The name of the city that "Romeo and Juliet" took place in?
Verona
ROMEO SOLILOQUY
“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek! “
When he sees her lean her cheek upon her hand, he yearns to be a glove on her hand so that he might touch her cheek. Romeo had just met Juliet earlier in the evening and his wish to get close to her again drives him to her garden
"My child look up! Revive look up or I will die with thee"
Lady Capulet (Act 4, Scene 5)
"My sword, I say! Old Montague is come
And flourishes his blade in spite of me"
Lord Capulet (Act 1, Scene 1)
"These violent delights have violent ends,
And in their triumph die; like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume: the sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness,
And in the taste confounds the appetite:
Therefore love moderately: long love doth so"
Friar Lawrence (Act 2, Scene 6)