Romeo and Juliet

• Prologue


  Tells us that Romeo and Juliet's fate is predetermined and only their deaths can reconcile their warring families
• Act 1 Scene 1

  1. The two families hate each other, they only stop fighting when the Prince intervenes and threatens them with death

  2. Romeo thinks he's in love with Rosaline but she doesn't love him
• Paris


  Wants to marry Juliet to improve his social status
• Juliet's nurse and mother


  Seem keen for her to marry Paris
• Act 1 Scene 4

  1. Mercutio's Queen Mab speech

  2. Persuades Romeo to go to the Capulet ball

  3. Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love
• Romeo falls in love with Juliet


  But they should really be hating each other
• Act 2 Scene 2 (Balcony Scene)


  1. Romeo and Juliet meet for the second time

  2. Juliet says she will send a messenger to see if Romeo still wants to marry her
• Act 2 Scene 6

  1. Romeo and Juliet meet for the third time

  2. Friar Laurence performs the marriage ceremony
• Friar Laurence and Romeo/Juliet

  Hope the love will bring peace between the feuding Capulets and Montagues
• Act 3


  1. Tybalt returns and kills Mercutio

  2. Romeo kills Tybalt in revenge

  3. Romeo is banished from Verona
• Juliet discovers Romeo has killed Tybalt


  She is conflicted, comparing Romeo to a black raven disguised in white feathers
• Act 3


  1. Capulet decides Juliet should marry Paris in 3 days time

  2. Juliet goes to Friar Laurence who gives her a potion to make her appear dead
• Juliet takes the potion

  Her family thinks she is dead and sends her body to the family tomb
• Romeo's friend Balthazar


  Believes Juliet is dead and tells Romeo
• Romeo


  Buys poison and sets out for Verona, unaware of Friar Laurence's plan
• Final Act


  1. Romeo finds Juliet's body in the tomb and kills himself

  2. Juliet then stabs herself to death
• The deaths of Romeo and Juliet finally convince their families to abandon hate and embrace love, they are reconciled