a speech directed to the audience

inciting incident

• Montague
• Lover of Juliet
• strongly believes in fate

• father of Romeo
• head of the Montague family

• wife of Montague and mother of Romeo
• Montague

• a kinsman of the Montague family
• best friend of Romeo
• helped him get over Rosaline
• supposed peace-maker

• A Montague servingman

• Romeo's servingman

• young girl of 13
• Romeo's lover
• Didn't want to get married until she met Romeo
• Capulet's daughter

• Juliet's father
• head of the Capulet household

• Juliet's mother
• not very involved with her daughter's life

• Juliet's nurse
• pracitically raised her
• she knows everything

• Juliet's cousin
• violent
• hates the Montagues
• swears revenge on Romeo after crashing the Capulet party
• gets killed in the 3rd Act by Romeo after Tybalt kills Mercutio

• Tybalt's companion

• Prince who decreed that the man who starts up a fight between the Montagues and the Capulets shall be killed

• Prince's friend
• Juliet's suitor
• "made from wax"

• Prince's friend
• Romeo's friend
• is killed in the Act 3 by Tybalt
• Comic character

• The man who marries Romeo and Juliet to try to stop the feuding families
• advices Romeo not to jump into a marriage too fast
• neutral--not in favor of the Montagues or the Capulets

• 1533-1603
• daughter of King VII
• ruled England
  • Protestants vs. Catholics

• The period that Queen Elizabeth I ruled England
• relatively peaceful time in England's history
• There were also many advancements in sciene and exploration, when arts and leisure flourished because Elizabeth was liberal

• stinky-chamber pots
• sword fights
• protesants vs. catholics

• boys went to school or studied at home with private tutors if there was enough $$$
• girls got an education at home
  • reading
  • arthemetic

• women were subservient to men
• dependent on family to support them
• Married only with parental permission:
  • boys marry at 14
  • girls at 12

• big outbreak in 1563--80,000 people were killed (2/3 of Europe)
• the pestilence or the black death
• outbreaks in city and in country
• bad hygiene caused the plague
• there was no way to stop it and no immunity

• Queen Elizabeth I loved theater! so theater flourished
• became a leisure activity
• actors didn't have to travel the country to preform but were premitted to preform in the city

• 1 of the most famous theaters built during the Elizabethan Era
• 1576-built by James Burbage (landlord)
• 1599-theater was moved because the rent was too high
• Many of Shakespeare's plays were preformed at the Globe Theater by Lord Chamberlain's Men (including Richard Burbage=son of the past landlord)

• 1564-1616
• born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon
• at 18, he married Anne Hathaway
• 1590-1613=when he produced most of his works
  • they were preformed at the Globe

• critics attacked Shakespeare b/c he was not as educated as other playwrights
• praised by many later in his life
• he never felt the fame he has today

• 1597=Romeo and Juliet was 1st published
• plot was based off an italian tale: "The tragic History of Romeus and Juliet" by Arthur Brooke in 1562
  • created new characters and changed time line from 9 months to > a week

• states that the Capulets and Montagues are fighting
• Romeo and Juliet are going to die

• fight scene
• The Prince says he will kill the next person who starts a fight between the Capulets and the Montagues
• Benvolio goes to find out why Romeo is depressed and realizes that he is love with Rosaline and tries to get him to move on

• We learn that Lord Capulet's daughter, Juliet, is not yet married
• Capulet wants Paris to marry Juliet but wants her to like him
• Capulet sends his servingman out with the guest list to the Capulet party so he can invite everyone
• the servingman is illeriate and asks Romeo to read it for him
• afterwards he invites him and Benvolio to the Capulet party not knowing they are Montagues
• Benvolio thinks its a great idea to go, Romeo doesn't want to

• Lady Capulet and the nurse convince Juliet to talk to Paris during the party
• we see the nurse is very close to Juliet

• Romeo, Benvolio, and Mercutio are at the Capulet party
• Tybalt sees them and wants to kill Romeo for being a party crasher but Lord Capulet stops him
• Romeo and Juliet meet, fall in love, and find out they are enemies

• Romeo has disappeared
• Mercutio and Benvolio think that he is with Rosaline

• Mercutio, Benvolio, and Romeo set out for the party
• Romeo still doesn't want to go because he had a dream that fate wanted him dead but goes anyway b/c he believes he has no choice in the matter since fate is already decided

• Romeo finds Friar Lawerence and asks if he could marry Juliet and himself
• Friar Lawerence knows that Romeo is rushing things but decides to do it in an effort to stop the family feud

• Friar Lawerence marries Romeo and Juliet

• Tybalt is looking for Romeo to kill him for crashing the party
• runs into Benvolio and Mercutio and they start fighting
• Romeo tries to stop it
• Tybalt kills Mercutio
• Mercutio blames Romeo
• Romeo kills Tybalt and runs