Romeo and Juliet Characters and (quick) Plot

We open with a TV announcer. "Civil blood makes civil hands unclean:" - TV & magazines, signs at the gas stations, buildings, personalized licensed plates try to update the old "chorus" of Greek antiquity.

Montagues vs Capulets

1. "the boys" w/swords - Shootout at the gas station.


2. Prince threatens families


3. Romeo moons for Roselyn; folks worry, send Cousin Benvolio to spy on the boy

Casa Capulet

1. Costume party to marry Juliet to Paris


2. Romeo's chums drag him along.


3. R sees Juliet forgets Roselyn
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4. Balcony, love, promises.

Rough Wedding

1. Romeo goes to Friar Laurence to marry; he hopes they'll turn their famillies' "rancor into pure love"


2. R promises J's nurse he'll marry J; the nurse reports.


3. R&J secretly wed


4. R refuses duel, finally kills J's cousin Tybalt.


5. L sends R to J, then to Mantua; will arrange union.


6. Capulet offers J to Paris.


7. R leaves J @ dawn. J refuses Paris, fairly near disowned.

Plots foul

1. Father Laurence offers Juliet a drug to feign death.


2. Laurence's letter does not get through to Romeo.


3. R hear's J's supposed death, gets poison, returns to Verona, drinks poison.


4. J sees R dying, kills self.

Philosophical denoument

1. Families relent


2. All are Punishèd

Main Characters -

House of Montague

• Montague


• Lady Montague


• Romeo, son to Montague.


• Benvolio, nephew to Montague, and friend to Romeo

House of Capulet

• Capulet


• Lady Capulet, wife to Capulet.


• Juliet, daughter to Capulet.


• Tybalt, nephew to Lady Capulet.


• Nurse to Juliet.

Various

• Escalus, Prince of Verona.Here the police officer.


• Paris, Count, kinsman to the Prince, Cap's choice for J.


• Mercutio, kinsman to the Prince and friend to Romeo.


• Friar Laurence, Franciscan and herbalist