Romeo & Juliet

• What happens in Act 5, scene 1?

  Balthazar tells Romeo that Juliet is dead and gets poison from the Apothecary.
• What would an Elizabethan audience be suspicious about?

  The friar, who meddled with potions and herbs connecting to witchcraft.
• Key Terminology:

  • Play
  • Audience
  • Act
  • Scene
  • Soliloquy
  • Words
  • Connotations
  • Semantic field
  • Simile
  • Metaphor
  • Symbolism
  • Repitition