“A pair of star-crossed lovers…” | Chorus (prologue) |
“Alas that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!” | BenvolioRomeo and Benvolio are talking about why Romeo’s sad |
“… I will make the think thy swan a crow.” | BenvolioBenvolio tried to convince Romeo to go to Capulet’s party |
“… Queen Mab… She is the fairies’ midwife …” | Mercutio Dream rant, Romeo has premonition, they’re going to the party |
“O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of nightAs rich as a jewel in an Ethiop’s ear …” | RomeoRomeo first sees Juliet |
“You kiss by th’ book.” | JulietLast words Juliet says to Romeo before the nurse calls her away when she first meets him |
“My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!” | JulietWhen she finds out that Romeo’s a Montague |
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?” | RomeoBefore balcony scene- he hears Mercutio and Benvolio talking about Rosaline’s vow to chastity, trying to provoke him |
“O Romeo, O Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” | JulietBalcony scene- denying family names |
“That which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet.” | JulietBalcony scene- Juliet tells Romeo that his name doesn’t define who he is |
“O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon,That monthly changes in her circled orb,Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.” | JulietBalcony scene |
“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.” | RomeoBalcony scene- He’s about to leave |
“How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night,Like softest music to attending ears.” | RomeoBalcony scene- after Juliet calls Romeo back |
“Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrowThat I shall say “Good night” till it be morrow.” | JulietEnd of balcony scene |
“… ’tis not so deep as a well, not so wide as a church door, but ’tis enough. ‘Twill serve.” | Mercutio Fight |
“A plague o’ both houses!” | MercutioFight |
“Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day.It was the nightingale, and not the lark,That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.” | JulietRomeo and Juliet’s last conversation before he leaves |
“Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund dayStands tiptoe on thirsty mountain tops.” | RomeoHe argues that it’s almost day, and he should leave |
“Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds…” | CapuletWhen Juliet disagrees to marrying Paris |
“… past hope, past care, past help.” | JulietParis leaves, Juliet is with the Friar |
“Not stepping o’er the bounds of modesty.” | Juliet Occurs twice- second time, when Juliet agrees to marry Paris |
“Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.” | RomeoWhen he found Juliet in her tomb |
“… never was a story of more woeThan this of Juliet and her Romeo.” | PrinceLast words of the play- prince talking to Capulet |
Thematic Opposition (#4 on outline) | DoublingPairingSubstitutingRepeatingNegatingCooperationWinning/losingUnion/division |
Types of love (#5 on outline) | CivicFamilialRomanticFriendly |
Order of Cause For Action (#8 on outline) | Nature- pastoral worldHuman natureAccidentThe starsSocietyGod |
Every Shakespearean Sonnet has… | 14 linesRhyme scheme |
Poetic foot | Two syllables |
Pentameter | 10 syllables = five feet |
Iambic pentameter | Each of the 14 lines has 10 syllables, the first in a foot= unstressed, the second= stressed |
Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library Updated Edition)
August 4, 2019