Mysteries
A mysterious disappearance from this main character after the end of Act 3.
Who is Benvolio?
By coincidence, Romeo and Benvolio are asked to read this document by a illiterate Capulet servant.
What is the Capulet party guest list?
This character's dread of "...this night's revels..." will end in his death.
What is Romeo's bad feeling?
Friar Laurence states "Within the infant rind of this small flower/ *this* hath a residence..."
What is poison?
Derived from the word mercurial (to change) and the Roman god Mercury.
Who is Mercutio?
Lady Capulet is first to ask Juliet on her thoughts of marriage, but it is a mystery as to how she learned of the proposal of this man.
Who is Count Paris?
By coincidence, this messenger arrives to Mantua bearing false news of Juliet for Romeo.
Who is Balthasar?
This character's worry of "As with a club dash out my desp'rate brains?"
What is Juliet's bad feeling?
The Nurse's comparison of this man to "Nay, he's a flower, in faith-a very flower."
Who is Paris?
Italian origin; to have good-will or to be a peacekeeper.
Who is Benvolio?
The age of Juliet is given, but it remains a mystery of how old this character was.
Who is Romeo?
By coincidence, Friar John was stopped by this, as wished upon by Mercutio, from giving news to Romeo.
What is the plague?
This character's conflicting feelings of "Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!/Dove-feathered raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!/Despised substance of divinest show!"
What is Juliet's bad feeling?
Lord Capulet states "Death lies on her like *this* /Upon the sweetest flower of all the field."
What is an untimely frost?
Latin origin; to be youthful or beautiful.
Who is Juliet?
Friar Laurence gave Juliet this, but it is unclear as to how it worked.
What is the potion?
By coincidence, this character showed up just after Romeo had killed himself.
Who is Friar Laurence?
This character's mourning of "Tybalt is gone, and Romeo is banished;/Romeo that killed him, he is banished."
What is the Nurse's bad feeling?
Paris' promise to do decorate this with flowers "Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew..."
What is Juliet's grave/the Capulet tomb?
Derived from the Trojan Prince; known for romance.
Who is Paris?
This line at the end of the play, "Some shall be pardoned, and some punished" was stated by this character and posed the mystery of who was pardoned and who was punished.
Who is the Prince?
By coincidence, this character appears just as Tybalt is looking for a fight between the two of them.
Who is Romeo?
This character's fear of "I will tear thee joint by joint/And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs."
What is Balthasar's bad feeling?
Juliet states, a bud of this "May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet."
What is love?
A last name meaning "pointed hill" that originated in France.
What is Montague?