Romeo & Juliet Review

“Romeo, Romeo, Romeo!  Here’s drink-I drink to thee.”         

.  “Wiselyand slow.  They stumble that run fast.”          

  “More light and light; more dark and dark our woes!”

"These violent delights have violent ends."

O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face!Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?

"  A plague o'both your houses! 

Soliloquy:actor talks to the audience about thoughts/feelings.

What'sin a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet.

  “It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!”

“O, I am fortune’s fool!”

"Thursday, tell her,She shall be married to this noble earl.”

aside:talks aloud to self without referencing the audience..

The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb/What is her burying grave, that is her wom

 Lord Capulet throws a party.

   But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?

See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love. 

Shakespeare writes his verse in iambic hexameter. 

Juliet drinks the potion.

 “A plague o’ both your houses.”

"O,that deceit should dwellIn such a gorgeous place!"

The apothecary illegally sells the poison.

“It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!” 

 “Send for the county; gotell him of this:I'll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning.”

 The balcony scene

“Death is my son-in law.  Death is my heir.” 

 Lord Capulet promises Juliet’s hand in marriage to Paris.

My only love, sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”

Character arrivals are always announced in Shakespearean plays. 

No character in Shakespearean drama is angry without direct proclamation of it.

"Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir;"

“What if it be a poison, which the friar Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead,

 “I think it best you married with the County.” 

“O, I am fortune’s fool!” 

Juliet stabs herself.

 Romeo and Juliet marry.

 Balthazar reports Juliet’s death to Romeo

  “Wisely, and slow.  They stumble that run fast.” 

 “O, find him! give this ring to my true knight,And bid him come to take his last farewell.”

 “Take thou this vial, being then in bed,And this distilled liquor drink thou off;

Everyone who attended the Globe Theater had a comfortable seat from which to enjoy the play. 

 “Now,Tybalt, take the villain back again,"

“I tell thee what: get thee to church o'Thursday,Or never after look me in the face

“Good-night, good-night! Parting is such sweet sorrow." 

 The people who paid the least to attend the Globe Theater were called“groundlings.”

Prince makes a decree about the feud.

No,'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide asa church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve

 “Younger than she are happy mothers made.”

Shakespeare was born in London, England.

 A beautiful, young girl played the part of Juliet in Shakespeare’s original production.

Shakespeare wrote all of his stage directions in great detail.

 Romeo is exiled.

 “Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace!”

 I fear, too early; for my mind misgives Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,