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three times. This triple curse, directed at the Montague and Capulet houses, almost literally comes true. Due to an unfortunate coincidence – a plague quarantine imposed by the city guards – Friar John is unable to deliver a letter informing the exiled Romeo that Juliet is not dead but asleep. As a result, both Romeo and Juliet perish.
In the famous speech of Act II, Scene II [1] of the play, the line is said by Juliet in reference to Romeo's house: Montague. The line implies that his name (and thus his family's feud with Juliet's family) means nothing and they should be together. Juliet: O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Romeo and Juliet is a dramatization of Brooke's translation, and Shakespeare follows the poem closely but adds detail to several major and minor characters (the Nurse and Mercutio in particular). [23] [24] [25]
While Romeo + Juliet is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies, Jack Antonoff forgot about that part while creating music for the Broadway revival. "When I think Romeo + Juliet, and ...
When Mercutio sees Romeo the next day, he is glad to see that his friend is his old self again, and he encourages Romeo, all the while making bawdy jokes at the expense of Juliet's Nurse. After Romeo receives a death threat from Juliet's cousin Tybalt, Mercutio expects Romeo to engage Tybalt in a duel. However, Romeo refuses to fight Tybalt ...
But even if Romeo & Juliet were the most relatable play in the world, the notion of getting teens and twenty-somethings to pack the house for iambic pentameter feels like an uphill battle. That ...
Capulet's orchard and Juliet's chamber. 252 IV 1 Friar Lawrence's cell. 127 IV 2 A hall in Capulet's house. 49 IV 3 Juliet's chamber. 59 IV 4 A hall in Capulet's house. 32 IV 5 Juliet's chamber. 140 V 1 Mantua. A street. 89 V 2 Friar Lawrence's cell. 30 V 3 A churchyard; before a tomb belonging to the Capulets. 320
The Nurse is a bawdy comic character, and a confidante of Juliet, in Romeo and Juliet. The Nurse helps to deliver Aaron's son to Tamora, in Titus Andronicus. Aaron murders her. Nym (fict) is a follower of Sir John Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor, and a companion of Pistol and Bardolph in Henry V.