Kid/Young Adult Characters
Adult Characters
Plot
Shakespeare's Writing and Times
Play Terms and Structure
100
This Montague is one of the two "star-crossed lovers" at the center of our play.
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Who is Romeo?
100
This couple is hoping they can marry their "headstrong" daughter off to the noble Count Paris.
Who are the Capulets?
100
After the fight at the beginning of the play, the Prince threatens this extreme measure upon anyone who fights again.
What is death?
100
Shakespeare performed his plays at this theatre, named for both its iconic circular architecture, as well as the idea that, as Shakespeare so wonderfully stated: "all the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players (actors)."
What is the Globe?
100
Play divisions are marked by this ancient numerical system where numbers are denoted by letters. In plays, acts get the Capital numerals, while scenes within them get the lowercase numerals, being smaller.
What are Roman Numerals?
200
This Capulet is the other half of the "star-crossed" couple that sits at the center of this show.
Who is Juliet?
200
This couple wants to know why their son is so upset at the start of act 1.
Who are the Montagues?
200
The Capulets are throwing a party, and they have a servant go to deliver invitations. The servant has this problem, though.
What is an inability to read?
200
The Globe was made of wood, so on June 29th, 1613, it was no surprise when this occurred after a canon misfired.
What is the theatre burned down?
200
If you're reading a play and see IV.iii, you are reading this numbered scene from this numbered act.
What is Act 4, scene 3?
300
This hotheaded "Prince of Cats" is Juliet's cousin; eventually killed by Romeo
Who is Tybalt?
300
This ruler of Verona is getting incredibly tired of having to break up fights between the Capulets and the Montagues.
Who is Prince Escalus?
300
Friar Lawrence is initially concerned about marrying Romeo and Juliet, but he eventually consents to do so for this reason.
What is he believes that their marriage might end their parents' feud.
300
In addition to his plays, Shakespeare wrote these 14-line love poems. He even sometimes included these in the dialogue of his plays, including in Act I scene v of Romeo and Juliet, where the first conversation the star-crossed lovers share is an example of this.
What is a sonnet?
300
This line delivery is when a character directs a long speech towards other characters.
What is a monologue?
400
This relative of the Prince of Verona is set to marry Juliet...if she's not dead first.
Who is Paris?
400
This holy man is also tired of the fighting, but he wants to solve the problem with love, not more bloodshed.
Who is Friar Lawrence?
400
After Juliet shows her willingness to take extreme measures, like killing herself, to ensure that she doesn't marry Count Paris, Friar Lawrence gives her this solution.
What is a potion that will put her to sleep for 42 hours?
400
When the last words of a two-line set rhyme, it's called this.
What is a couplet?
400
In contrast to a monologue, when a character talks to themselves so that the audience knows what they're thinking, it's called this.
What is a soliloquy?
500
This relative of the Prince is Romeo's best friend, and is killed by Tybalt when Romeo denies a challenge from him.
Who is Mercutio?
500
This caretaker of Juliet is a comedic relief character, most of her lines consisting of crude humor, long-winded rambling, teasing, or malapropisms (misusing words or speaking in a more muddled way.)
Who is the Nurse?
500
Friar Lawrence delivers a message to Mantua, where Romeo is exiled, but it never arrives for this reason.
What is the Mantuan guards all suspected that Friar John, the messages deliverer, was sick with the plague?
500
Shakespeare lived and wrote during this time of British history, named after the Queen who ruled during this period.
What is the Elizabethan Period (Nov. 1558-Mar. 1603)?
500
In this type of line delivery, a character speaks to the audience while other characters are on stage.
What is an aside?