Characters
Capulet is which character's last name.
Who is Juliet?
This will happen if the feuding families fight again.
“If ever you disturb our streets again,
your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace!” (12)
What is the Prince will execute them?
What is 14?
Montague is which character's last name.
Who is Romeo?
He's mad (always crashing out) that Romeo comes to the Capulet party.
“Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe,
A villain that is hither come in spite
To scorn at our solemnity this night” (34)
Tybalt
What is 4? (He RIP'd in 1616).
He is Romeo's friend and cousin.
Romeo means this when he says he has a soul of lead.
“You have dancing shoes
With nimble soles. I have a soul of lead
So stakes me to the ground I cannot move” (25).
What is he's sad, highkey emo, and doesn't want to go the party?
This is a likely reason Shakespeare spoils the ending of the play in the prologue.
What the reason likely is to get the audience to hope that the tragedy can be avoided, that true love can exist?
Romeo's friend and relative to the prince.
Who is Mercutio?
Juliet's mom was about this old when she had her.
What is about 12ish? (EEWWWW!)
When Romeo's rizz is a little too much for Juliet, she says they should just do what.
“Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss” (37).
What is hold hands?
What is 13?
This has happened to Juliet's siblings.
"The earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she;
She is the hopeful lady of my earth" (17).
What is they have died?
The likely reason that Shakespeare used iambic pentameter when writing about love.
What is the unstressed, stressed syllables sound of the meter sound like a heartbeat?