| Romeo | The son of Lord and Lady Montague and Juliet’s lover. |
| Juliet | The daughter of Lord and Lady Capulet and Romeo’s lover. |
| Benvolio | Montague’s nephew, Romeo’s cousin and thoughtful friend |
| Mercutio | Talks of Queen Mab when Romeo mentions a dream he had. |
| Lady Montague | The wife of Lord Montague and mother of Romeo. |
| Lord Montague | The head of the Montague family and father of Romeo. |
| Lady Capulet | The wife of Lord Capulet and mother of Juliet. |
| Lord Capulet | The head of the Capulet family and father of Juliet. |
| Prince Escalus | The prince of Verona. |
| Tybalt | Juliet’s hot-headed cousin |
| Nurse | Caretaker for Juliet |
| Balthasar | Servant to Romeo |
| Abraham | Servant of Montague |
| Peter | Servant to the Nurse |
| Sampson | Servant of Capulet |
| Gregory | Servant of Capulet |
| Paris | A kinsman of the Prince, and the suitor of Juliet most preferred by Capulet. |
| Friar Laurence | A Franciscm friar and Romeo’s confidant |
| Verona, Italy | The city in which the Montagues and Capulets live |
| Tragedy | Genre of the play Romeo and Juliet |
| Pun | A play on words involving the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings (collar, color), words with 2+ meanings (plain), or words with the same sound but different meanings (sun/son) |
| Character Foil | A character that by contrast highlights or enhances the distinctive characteristics of another character |
| Rosaline | The woman with whom Romeo is infatuated at the beginning of the play. |
| Dramatic Irony | Occurs when another character(s) and/or the audience know more than one or more characters on stage about what is happening |
| Soliloquy | A speech given by a character alone on stage |
| Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
| Alliteration | Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse |
| Oxymoron | A figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms |
| Iambic Pentameter | A metrical pattern in poetry which consists of five iambic feet per line. (an iamb, or iambic foot, consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.) |
| Sonnet | A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme |
| Protagonist | The main character in a literary work |
| Monologue | A long speech made by one performer or by one person in a group |
| Friar John | The man who was to deliver the letter of Juliet’s “death”, was trapped in a town with a disease, never got the letter to Romeo |
| Stratford-Upon-Avon | Where Shakespeare was born |
| Globe Theater | Built in 1599, this is a famous theater in London where many of William Shakespeare’s best-known plays were first performed |
| Young Boys | In the plays, the parts of young women were played by… |
Romeo and Juliet
November 23, 2019