Romeo and Juliet Characters

SETTING -The play is set in the thirteenth or fourteenth century in Italy in Verona and
Mantua. Much of the action takes place in Juliets house. Two cities of Venice are also
mentioned in the play. The Capulets and the Montagues, the main families of the play,
are from noble lineage and wealth; they dress well, live in fancy surroundings, and are
served by many attendants. The plays basic setting, therefore, is rich and elegant.
Ruling house of Verona:

Prince Escalus, the Prince of Verona, is the Conflictor of the feuding families. Escalus
is the voice of authority in Verona. He appears only three times within the text and only
to administer justice following major events in the feud between the Capulet and
Montague families. He first punishes Capulet and Montague for the quarrel between
Tybalt, Benvolio, and a handful of servants. He returns too late to stop the fatal brawls
between Tybalt and Mercutio and, subsequently, Tybalt and Romeo. Escalus is
prepared to execute Romeo for his offenseRomeo's killing Tybaltbut lightens the
sentence to lifetime banishment from Verona, when Benvolio insists that Tybalt started
the quarrel by murdering Mercutio, a kinsman to the Prince. Prince Escalus returns in
the final sceneV.iiifollowing the double suicide of Romeo and Juliet, and at last
orders the lords of the feuding families to make peace.

Count Paris is a kinsman of Prince Escalus and seeks to marry Juliet. He is described
as handsome, somewhat self-absorbed, and very wealthy.Paris makes his first
appearance in Act I, Scene II, where he expresses his wish to make Juliet his wife and
the mother of his children. Capulet demurs, citing his daughter's young age as a reason
and telling him to wait until she is more mature. (Paris disagrees, however.)
Nevertheless, Capulet invites Paris to attend a family ball being held that evening and
grants permission to woo and attract Juliet. Later in the play, however, Juliet refuses to
become Paris' "joyful bride" after her cousin Tybalt dies by her new husband Romeo's
hand, proclaiming that she now wants nothing to do with Paris. Her parents threaten to
disown (or cut ties with) her if she will not agree to the marriage. Then, while at
Laurence's cell at the church, Paris tries to woo her by repeatedly saying that she is his
wife and that they are to be married on Thursday. He kisses her and then leaves the
cell, prompting Juliet to angrily threaten to kill herself with a knife. His final appearance
in the play is in the cemetery where Juliet is "laid to rest" in the Capulet family tomb.
Believing her to be dead, Count Paris has come to mourn her death in solitude and
privacy and sends his manservant away. He professes his love to Juliet, saying he will
nightly weep for her (Act V, Scene III). Shortly thereafter, Romeo arrives. Paris sees him
and thinks he is trying to vandalize the tomb, so he tries to arrest him. They fight, and
Romeo kills Paris. Romeo grants Paris' dying wish to be placed next to Juliet in the
tomb.

Mercutio is the cousin of Prince Escalus and Count Paris, and is a close friend of
Romeo and his cousin Benvolio, The invitation to the Capulet's party reveals that he has
a brother named Valentine. Mercutio is apt to make long, drawn out speeches (the most
famous of which is the Queen Mab speech), and is generally thought to be reckless, a
jester, and a free spirit. Due to his reckless and flamboyant personality, Mercutio is one
of Shakespeare's most popular characters. Mercutio is the instigator of many fights with
his rather mean spirited humor, and often insults Tybalt, a renowned swordsman. It is
Tybalt's temper that leads to Mercutio's death, and Romeo's banishment and the
tragedy that follows.
After Romeo receives a death threat from Tybalt, Mercutio expects Romeo to engage
Tybalt in a duel. However, Romeo refuses to fight Tybalt, as Tybalt is Juliet's cousin and
therefore his kinsman. Not knowing this, Mercutio is incensed, and decides to fight
Tybalt himself. Romeo, not wanting his best friend or his relative to get hurt, intervenes,
causing Mercutio to be killed by Tybalt stabbing under Romeo's arm.Before he dies,
Mercutio casts "a plague o' both your houses!" He makes one final pun before he dies:
"Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man". In revenge for the murder of
his best friend, Romeo slays Tybalt, thus leading to Romeo's banishment from Verona
and the increasingly tragic turn of events that follows.

Page to Paris

Another page accompanies Paris to the Capulet's crypt when he goes to mourn Juliet.
He stands guard as Paris enters, ordered to "whistle then to me, / As signal that thou
hear'st something approach". When Romeo and Paris break into a brawl, the page runs
away to call the Watch. He returns with the Watch too late to stop the fray and later
testifies to the Prince of Paris' intentions.

House of Capulet:

Capulet is the patriarch of the Capulet family, the father of Juliet, and uncle of Tybalt.
He is very wealthy. He is sometimes commanding but also convivial, as at the ball:
when Tybalt tries to incite a duel with Romeo, Capulet tries to calm him and then
threatens to throw him out of the family if he does not control his temper; he does the
same to his daughter later in the play.

Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch!

I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday,

Or never after look me in the face

And you be mine, I'll give you to my friend;

And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets!

Capulet's ultimatum to Juliet Romeo and Juliet

Capulet highly believes he knows what is best for Juliet. He says that his consent to the
marriage depends upon what she wants and tells Count Paris that if he wants to marry
Juliet he should wait a while then ask her. Later, however, when Juliet is grieving over
Romeo's being sent away, Capulet thinks her sorrow is due to Tybalt's death, and in a
misguided attempt to cheer her up, he wants to surprise her by arranging a marriage
between her and Count Paris. The catch is that she has to be "ruled" by her father and
to accept the proposal. When she refuses to become Paris' "joyful bride", saying that
she can "never be proud of what she hates", Capulet becomes furious; threatens to
make her a street urchin; calls her a "hilding" , "unworthy", "young baggage", a
"disobedient wretch", a "green-sickness carrion", and "tallow-face"; and says God's
giving Juliet to them was a "curse" and he now realizes he and his wife had one child
too many when Juliet was born (in The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet). In
addition to threatening to turn her out, he threatens to sentence her to rot away in prison
if she does not obey her parents' orders. He then storms away, and his wife also rejects
Juliet before following him. He fixes the day of the marriage for Thursday and suddenly
advances it to Wednesday out of anger and impulse. His actions indicate that his
daughter's wants were irrelevant all the way up to the point when he sees her
unconscious on her bed (presumably dead) and later, when she is truly dead during the
play's final scene. It is he who asks Lord Montague for his hand to end the feud
between their families.

Lady Capulet and the Nurse persuade Juliet to marry Paris

Lady Capulet is the matriarch of the house of Capulet, and Juliet's mother. She plays a
larger role than Montague's wife, appearing in several scenes. In Act 1, Scene 3, she
speaks to Juliet about the marriage of her daughter and Paris, we see this as she
compares him to a book, and Juliet is the cover. However, in Scene four, she is pleased
about Count Paris' "interest" in her daughter. When Tybalt is killed in Act 3, she
expresses extreme grief and a strong desire for revenge on Romeo by wishing death
upon him. In Act 3, Scene 5, she becomes very angry with Juliet for refusing to marry
Paris and coldly rejects her, saying: "Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word; do as thou
wilt, for I am done with thee". By the final act, she is nearly overcome by the tragic
events of the play, this is where the grief stricken mother comes out. We know Juliet's
mother bore her first child by the time she was 14, Juliet's age, and her husband is
many years older than she. Calling her "Lady Capulet" is a modern addition; it is an
echo of Juliet's form of address in 3.5.65: "my lady mother". In the first texts the stage
direction and speech headings can be "mother", "wife", or even "old lady", but nowhere
"Lady Capulet".

Juliet Capulet is the female protagonist and one of two title characters in Romeo and
Juliet. She is 13 years old.Juliet is the only daughter of Capulet, the patriarch of the
Capulet family. As a child she was cared for by a Nurse, who is now her
confidante.Juliet dies at the end of the play, and the sacred lovers are reunited on the
same deathbed. Both their families realize what they had done by trying to separate the
star crossed lovers with the effect that the Capulets and Montagues are reunited and
their fighting ends.

Tybalt is Lady Capulet's nephew and Juliet's hot-headed cousin. As a skilled

swordsman, he serves as the story's principal antagonist. Tybalt is angered by the insult
of Romeo and Benvolio's uninvited presence at the ball in the Capulets' home. Tybalt
shares the same name as the character Tibert/Tybalt the "Prince of Cats" in Reynard
the Fox, a point of both mockery and compliment to him in the play. While Mercutio
repeatedly calls Tybalt "Prince of Cats" (referring to Tybalts speed and agility with the
sword), Mercutio is also insulting Tybalt the phrase refers not only to Reynard but to
the Italian word cazzo (pr. CAT-so) meaning penis.Tybalt is first seen coming to the
aid of his servants who are being attacked by the Montagues' servants. He is also
present at Capulet's feast in act one, scene five and is the first to recognize Romeo. His
last appearance is in act 3 scene 1, wherein Mercutio insults Tybalt and ends up fighting
with him. Tybalt kills Mercutio and, in retaliation, Romeo rages and kills Tybalt, resulting
in Romeo's banishment.

The Nurse is a major character in the play, and like the Friar she is a neutral character.
There has been speculation about her name, as Capulet refers to as "Angelica", but the
line can be addressed to either the nurse or Lady Capulet. She is the personal servant
(and former nurse) of Juliet's. As the primary person who raised Juliet, she is Juliet's
confidante and effectively more of a mother to the girl than Lady Capulet.

Peter is the personal servant of the Nurse's. He appears to be a loyal servant, always
quick to obey the Nurse. He is chastised for not fighting Mercutio for the Nurse's honor,
but insists that he "saw no man use you a pleasure; if I had, / my weapon should quickly
have been out".He appears again in act four, scene five in a brief comic relief scene
with a number of musicians.

At the beginning of the play, Gregory and Sampson (right) quarrel with Abram
and Balthazar.

Gregory and Sampson are the Capulet servants. Gregory is originally hesitant to start
a fight. Sampson, however, bites his thumb at Abram, "Which is a disgrace to them, if
they bear it". The Montagues then retaliate in earnest. Benvolio arrives to break up the
fight but ends up fighting with Tybalt. Both Gregory and Sampson appear to be friends
of their master Tybalt's.In the opening scene, the two engage in a dialogue full of puns
on "coal" and "eye", each intending to outdo the other and get each other ready to fight
Montagues. The rhetorical form is called stychomythia, wherein characters participate in
a short, quick exchanges of one-upmanship. Their discussion and brawl in this scene
set the stage for the rivalry and hatred which fills the rest of the play.[7]

Anthony, Potpan, and two other servants to the Capulet family play out a short comic
scene in act one, scene five, arguing over the preparations for Capulet's feast. Capulet's
servants are referenced again in act four, scene one; Capulet orders them to begin
preparations for another party: the wedding of Juliet and Paris. Anthony is a servant of
Capulets, overworked the night of the feast. He is sent to invite the guests to Juliets
wedding.Potpan is a servant of Capulets, overworked the night of Capulets feast.

Servant to Capulet

The hapless servant attempting to find the people named on a list he cannot read.A
servant to Capulet is sent to deliver party invitations to a number of nobles and friends
to Capulet. While walking, he comes upon Romeo and Benvolio and asks them to read
the list for him, as he cannot read. As a thank you, he invites the boys to "come and
crush a cup of wine," not realizing that they are Montagues. This character may have
been intended to be the same as Peter, and is usually identified in scripts either as
Peter or as a Clown.

House of Montague:

Montague

The father of Romeo. Presumably, he is also wealthy, and is always in feud with
Capulet. Montague clearly loves his son deeply and at the beginning of the play, worries
for him as he recounts to Benvolio this attempts to find out the source of his depression.
He wishes Benvolio better luck. After Romeo kills Tybalt, Montague pleas to the Prince
to spare him of execution as Romeo did only what the law would have done, since
Tybalt killed Mercutio. He appears again at the end of the play to mourn Romeo, having
already lost his wife to grief.

Lady Montague is the matriarch of the house of Montague, and the mother of Romeo
and aunt of Benvolio. She appears twice within the play: in act one, scene one she first
restrains Montague from entering the quarrel himself, and later speaks with Benvolio
about the same quarrel. She returns with her husband and the Prince in act three,
scene one to see what the trouble is, and is there informed of Romeo's banishment.
She dies of grief offstage soon after (mentioned in act five). She is very protective of her
son Romeo and is very happy when Benvolio tells her that Romeo was not involved in
the brawl that happened between the Capulets and Montagues. As with Capulet's wife,
calling her "Lady Montague" is a later invention not supported by the earliest texts.

Romeo is sixteen year old.In the beginning of the play, Romeo pines for an unrequited
love, Rosaline. To cheer him up, his cousin and friend Benvolio and Mercutio take him
to the Capulets' celebration in disguise, where he meets and falls in love with the
Capulets' only daughter, Juliet. Later that night, he and Juliet meet secretly and pledge
to marry, despite their families' long-standing feud. They marry the following day, but
their union is soon thrown into chaos by their families; Juliet's cousin Tybalt duels and
kills Romeo's friend Mercutio, throwing Romeo into such a rage that he kills Tybalt, and
the Prince of Verona subsequently banishes him. Meanwhile, Juliet's father plans to
marry her off to Paris, a local aristocrat, within the next few days, threatening to turn her
out on the streets if she doesn't follow through. Desperate, Juliet begs Romeo's
confidant, Friar Laurence, to help her to escape the forced marriage. Laurence does so
by giving her a potion that puts her in a deathlike coma. The plan works, but too soon
for Romeo to learn of it; he genuinely believes Juliet to be dead, and so resolves to
commit suicide, by drinking the bottle of poison (illegally bought from the Apothecary
upon hearing the news of Juliet's "death"). Romeo's final words were "Thus with a kiss I
die".He kills himself at Juliet's grave, moments before she awakes; she kills herself in
turn shortly thereafter.

Benvolio is Montague's nephew and Romeo's cousin. Benvolio and Romeo are both
friends of Mercutio, a kinsman to Prince Escalus. Benvolio seems to have little
sympathy with the feud, trying unsuccessfully to back down from a fight with Tybalt, and
the duels that end in Mercutio and Tybalt's death. Benvolio spends most of Act I
attempting to distract his cousin from his infatuation with Rosaline, but following the first
appearance of Mercutio in I.iv, he and Mercutio become more closely aligned until III.i.
In that scene, he drags the fatally wounded Mercutio offstage, before returning to inform
Romeo of Mercutio's death and the Prince of the course of Mercutio's and Tybalt's
deaths. Benvolio then disappears from the play (though, as a Montague, he may
implicitly be included in the stage direction in the final scene "Enter Lord Montague and
others", and he is sometimes doubled with Balthasar). Though he ultimately disappears
from the play without much notice, he is a crucial character if only in that he is the only
child of the new generation from either family to survive the play (as Romeo, Juliet,
Paris, Mercutio, and Tybalt are dead).

Balthasar is Romeo's servant and trusted friend. They have a brotherly relationship,
which is identified when Balthasar tells Romeo Juliet is "dead." While he is not directly
referenced in the first scene of the play, the directions call for two Montague servants to
quarrel with Sampson and Gregory. He then comes back in Act V Scene 1 telling
Romeo about Juliet's death. Later Friar Laurence runs past Balthasar and asks him
where Romeo is. Balthasar tells him that he is inside the tomb. Then the Prince calls
him in and asks him questions about why was he there. He gives the Prince the letter
that explains why Romeo killed himself.

Abram (sometimes referred to as Abraham) is a servant of the Montague household.

He appears in Act 1, Scene 1, where he and another servant (presumably Balthasar)
are provoked into a fight with Gregory and Sampson when the latter bites his thumb at
them.

Other characters:

Mercutios Page [mute role] runs to fetch a doctor after his master is wounded.

Friar Lawrence plays the part of an advisor and mentor to Romeo, along with aiding in
major plot developments.Alone, the innocent Friar gives us foreshadowing with his
soliloquy about plants and their similarities to humans. When Romeo requests that the
Friar marry him to Juliet, he is shocked, because only days before, Romeo had been
infatuated with Rosaline, a woman who did not return his love. Nevertheless, Friar
Laurence decides to marry Romeo and Juliet in the attempt to end the civil feud
between the Capulets and the Montagues.When Romeo is banished and flees to
Mantua for murdering Tybalt (who had previously murdered Mercutio), he tries to help
the two lovers get back together using a death-emulating potion to fake Juliet's
death.The friar's letter to Romeo does not reach him because the people of Mantua
suspect the messenger came from a house where the plague reigns,and the Friar is
unable to arrive at the Capulet's monument in time. Romeo kills Count Paris, whom he
finds weeping near Juliet's corpse, then commits suicide, by drinking poison that he
bought from an impoverished apothecary,over what he thinks is Juliet's dead body. Friar
Laurence arrives just as Juliet awakes from her chemically induced slumber. He urges
Juliet not to be rash, and to join a society of nuns,but he hears a noise from outside and
then flees from the tomb. Juliet then kills herself with Romeo's dagger, completing the
tragedy. The Friar is forced to return to the tomb, where he recounts the entire story to
Prince Escalus, and all the Montagues and Capulets. As he finishes, the prince
proclaims, "We have still known thee for a holy man".

Friar John calls at the door of Friar Laurence's cell, "Holy Franciscan friar! brother, ho!"
(5.2.1). Friar Laurence comes out and immediately asks about Romeo: "Welcome from
Mantua! What says Romeo? / Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter" (5.2.3-4). Friar
John explains that he sought out another friar for company and found him in a house
where he was visiting the sick, whereupon the health authorities, fearing there was
pestilence in the house, confined both friars in the house so they wouldn't infect others.
The authorities wouldn't even allow Friar John to use a messenger to send the letter
back to Friar Laurence.

A Chorus gives the opening prologue and one other speech, both in the form of a
Shakespearean sonnet.The Chorus is an omniscient character. It appears at the top of
the play to fill the audience in on the ancient quarrel between the, "Two households,
both alike in dignity / In fair Verona, where we lay our scene". It returns as a prologue to
act two to foreshadow the tragic turn of events about to befall the new romance
between the title characters.The Chorus only appears in the Quarto versions, not in the
First Folio.

The Apothecary is a pharmacist/druggist who reluctantly sells Romeo's poison; he is a

poor potion maker of Mantua.

Watchmen

The Watch of Verona takes the form of three watchmen. The First Watch appears to
be the constable, who orders the Second and Third to "search about the churchyard!"
Unusual for a Shakespearean watch group, they appear to be a relatively intelligent
unit, managing to capture and detain Balthasar and Friar Laurence in the churchyard.
They then testify to the Prince to their role in the murder and suicide scene. First
Watchman is brought by Pariss Page to the Capulets monument. Finding the various
corpses, he sends for everybody involved, though unable to theorize what has occurred.
He has Balthasar and Friar Lawrence held until the Prince can arrive. Second
Watchman arrives at the graveyard with the First Watchman. He is sent to search for
anybody who may be around, and finds Balthasar. Third Watchman arrives at the
graveyard with the Chief Watchman. He is sent to search for anybody who may be
around, and finds Friar Lawrence.

Musician

Three musicians for Juliet's wedding appear in act four, scene five in a brief comic
scene, refusing to play a song called "Heart's ease" for Peter. They are referred to by
the names of Simon Catling, Hugh Rebeck, and James Soundpost. First Musician is
hired for Juliets wedding, and after her death refuses to play a merry song for Peter,
particularly as he cannot pay. He most likely plays a lute, or other plucked-string
instrument.Second Musician plays the rebec. He attempts to have Peter calm down
and put his dagger away. Like the first musician, he will not play without pay. He
convinces his fellow musicians to stick around to profit from the food.Third Musician is
a singer. He does not quite know how to react to Peter.

Citizens of Verona

A number of citizens emerge during Act I, Scene I to break apart the fight between
some Capulet and Montague servants. They appear again in Act III, Scene I to discover
the slain body of Tybalt, at which point they place Benvolio under citizen's arrest until
the Prince's swift entrance.

Unseen and ghost characters:

Petruchio is a guest at the Capulet feast. He is notable only in that he is the only ghost
character confirmed by Shakespeare to be present. When the party ends and Juliet
inquires towards Romeo's identity, the Nurse attempts to avoid the subject by answering
that Juliet is pointing at "the young Petruchio". Later, he is with Tybalt when he fatally
wounds Mercutio, and a few scripts identify a Capulet with one line by that name.
Petruchio is also the name of a major character in Shakespeare's earlier work, The
Taming of the Shrew. Tybalt's page

Rosaline is an unseen character and niece of Capulet. Although silent, her role is
important: her lover, Romeo, first spots Juliet while trying to catch a glimpse of Rosaline
at a Capulet gathering.Before Juliet, Romeo was deeply intrigued with another woman
that didn't return his feelings. Scholars generally compare Romeo's short-lived love of
Rosaline with his later love of Juliet. Rosaline means "fair rose". The poetry he writes for
Rosaline is much weaker than that for Juliet. Scholars believe his early experience with
Rosaline prepares him for his relationship with Juliet. Later performances of Romeo and
Juliet have painted different pictures of Romeo and Rosaline's relationship, with
filmmakers experimenting by making Rosaline a more visible character.

Valentine is Mercutio's brother, briefly mentioned as a guest at the Capulet feast where
Romeo and Juliet meet. He is a ghost character with no speaking parts, and his only
possible appearance is at the Capulet feast among the guests. "Valentine" has been
taken to mean "lover" or "brother", and is associated with these attributes in several
stories and histories. Scholars have pointed out that Valentine is more strongly
connected to a major character than other ghosts, as he is given a direct connection to
his brother. Although he has a very small role in Shakespeare's play, earlier versions of
the story gave him no role or mention at all. In fact, they gave even Mercutio a very
minor role. Shakespeare was the first English dramatist to use the name "Valentine" on
stage, in his earlier plays, Titus Andronicus and Two Gentlemen of Verona. In Titus,
Valentine plays a minor role, but in Two Gentlemen, he is one of the title characters.
Incidentally, the Valentine of Two Gentlemen borrows heavily from Arthur Brooke's
Romeus in The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet, which Shakespeare later used to
create Romeo and Juliet. Brooke's version made Mercutio a rival for Juliet's love.
Shakespeare's addition of Valentine as Mercutio's brother diffuses this rivalry. Thus,
because the first time we hear of Mercutio he is associated with Valentine, rather than
Juliet, he is changed from a rival to a friend and brotherly figure of Romeo.

Some facts:

After the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt, Benvolio acts as a chorus.

Friar Laurence's message doesn't reach Romeo in Mantua because Friar John
can't get to Mantua because of a plague outbreak.
How much time elapses in the play? A little over four days
Mercutio explains the reason why people dream by describing the actions of
which mythical character? Queen Mab
What disturbance prompts the Prince to threaten the feuding Capulets and
Montagues? The servants of the feuding families engage in a brawl.
What does Juliet place by her bedside as she takes the sleeping potion? A
dagger
What is Mercutio's nickname for Tybalt?Prince of Cats
What is the name of the Nurse's servant?Peter
When the play begins, Juliet is how old?13
Who are the only characters who know of Romeo and Juliet's wedding? The
Nurse and Friar Laurence
Who says the following: "No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church
door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a
grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your
houses!"Mercutio
Who says the following: "O brawling love, O loving hate."Romeo
Who says the following: "Like violent delights have violent ends / And in their
triumph die, like fire and powder, / Which, as they kiss, consume." Friar Laurence
Whose body is in the tomb with Juliet when she is under the spell of the
potion?Tybalts
Why does the Friar agree to marry Romeo and Juliet? He hopes that the
marriage will help end the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets.
Who is Romeo in love with at the very beginning of the play?Rosaline
Who is vocally unhappy about the Montague's presence at the Capulet's
party?Tybalt
Who first mentions marriage during the balcony scene? (Act 2, Scene 2)Juliet
 Who does Romeo go to when trying to find a way to get married to Juliet?Friar
Laurence
Who gets information from Romeo to give to Juliet about their upcoming
marriage?Nurse
Who starts fighting Tybalt when Romeo won't?Mercutio
Who kills Mercutio by reaching under Romeo's outstretched arm?Tybalt
After Mercutio's death, Romeo gets revenge and kills Tybalt. What is his
punishment for the crime?Banishment
Who tells Juliet about Tybalt's death and Romeo's banishment?Nurse
Where is Romeo hiding when Nurse tells him Juliet still loves him, despite the
fact that he killed her cousin?
Friar Laurence's cell
How do Lord and Lady Capulet think they're going to cheer up Juliet after her
cousin's death?Letting her marry Paris
What does Friar Laurence give Juliet when she goes to his cell for
"confession"?Potion
Who informs Romeo of Juliet's "death"?Balthasar
Who is killed by Romeo outside of Juliet's tomb?Paris
What does Romeo use to kill himself?Potion
What does Juliet use to kill herself?Dagger
Who tells Romeo and Juliet's story to Lord and Lady Capulet, Lord Montague,
and Prince Escalus?Friar Laurence
In the end, what has been accomplished?The families agree to stop fighting