| Romeo | The 16-20-year-old son of Lord and Lady Montague |
| Juliet | The 13-year-old daughter of Lord and Lady Capulet |
| Friar Lawrence | Franciscan friar and friend of Romeo and Juliet |
| Mercutio | Juliet’s cousin and Romeo’s friend of the house Capulet (Very imaginative, witty, and strange; buffoon character) |
| The Nurse | The woman who treats Juliet and cared for Juliet her entire life |
| Tybalt | A Capulet and cousin of Juliet; he kills Mercutio |
| Lord Capulet | Patriarch of the Capulet family, father of Juliet, Husband of Lady Capulet, and enemy of Lord Montague |
| Lady Capulet | Juliet’s mother and Capulet’s wife, married very young and had a child young |
| Lord Montague | Romeo’s father and head of the Montague family and enemy of Capulet |
| Lady Montague | Romeo’s mother, Montague’s wife; dies of grief after Romeo is exiled |
| Paris | Kinsman of the prince and suitor of Juliet most preferred by Capulet |
| Benvolio | Montague’s nephew, Romeo’s cousin and thoughtful friend; Often tries to defuse violent scenes in public places |
| Prince Escalus | The prince of Verona, Kinsman of Mercutio and Paris |
| Friar John | A Franciscan friar charged by Friar Lawrence with taking the news of Juliet’s death to Romeo in Mantua(his message never reaches Romeo) |
| Balthasar | Romeo’s dedicated servant who rings Romeo the news of Juliet’s death, unaware that it is not real |
| Sampson and Gregory | 2 servants of the Capulets, start a fight in the first scene (they also hate the Montague men) |
| Abraham | Montague’s servant, who fights with Sampson and Gregory in the first scene |
| The Apothecary | A “pharmacist” in Mantua |
| Rosaline | The woman with whom Romeo is in love with in the beginning of the play |
| Chorus | Character who functions as a narrator |
| Acts 1 and 2 of Romeo and Juliet begin with a what? | Chorus |
| Shakespeare often uses what as humor devices? | Puns |
| [T/F] In a soliloquy, the person saying it believes that he or she is alone. | True |
| When one is unjustly murdered, his or her ghost will haunt a close person to them until he or she seeks what on the murderer? | Revenge |
| Where does Romeo and Juliet take place? | Verona, Italy (early spring) |
| Who said it: “What light through yonder window breaks, it is the east and Juliet is the sun” | Romeo |
| who said it: “For this alliance may so happy prove; to turn your household’s hate into pure love” | Friar Laurence |
| Who said it: “It fits when such a villain is a guest; I’ll not endure him” | Tybalt |
| Who said it: “Three civil brawls bred o an airy word; have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets” | Prince |
| Who said it: “Compare her face with some that I will show; and I will make thee think thy swan a crow” | Benvolio |
| Who said it: “A plague on both your houses!” | Mercutio |
| Who said it: “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” | Juliet |
| Who said it: “Let me tell you if you should lead her; into a fool’s paradise, as they say, it were a very gross behavior” | Nurse |
| Who said it: “With this night’s revels and expire the term; of a despised life closed in my breast; by some vile forfeit of untimely death” | Romeo |
| Who said it: “I would the fool were married to her grave” | Lady Capulet |
| Who said it: “Let two more summers wither in their pride; ere we may think her ripe to make a bride” | Lord Capulet |
| Who said it: “Parting in such sweet sorrow, that I shall not say good not till it be morrow” | Juliet |
| Soliloquy | A 25-30 line speech given by a character (When they are ALONE) |
| Groundlings | Peasants; The lower class in Shakespeare’s time who paid a penny to see a play |
| the yard | where groundlings stood to watch a play |
| Act I | exposition |
| Act II | rising action |
| Act III | climax |
| Act IV | falling action |
| Act V | resolution |
| Pit | Where the orchestra would play music during a play |
| balcony | Where Juliet would be speaking to Romeo from her balcony |
Romeo and Juliet 19
November 17, 2019