romeo and juliet

• Romeo is the teenage son of the Montague family, who are busy feuding with the Capulets.
• Juliet Capulet on the cusp of 14 years old, falls in love with Romeo, the son of her family's enemy.
• Friar Laurence is a Franciscan friar and a mentor to Romeo and Juliet. He secretly marries them, hoping to broker peace between the two families.
• The widowed Nurse is a loyal companion to Juliet, having cared for her since she was a baby. She helps to arrange Juliet and Romeo's secret marriage and often acts as an intermediary between them.
• Mercutio is a relative of the Prince of Verona and a close friend to Romeo.
• Tybalt is the nephew of Lady Capulet and Juliet's cousin. The Nurse also considers him her best friend.

  Hot-headed and proud, Tybalt is always a troublemaker.
• Act 1

  The head of the Capulet family plans a feast. His goal is to introduce his daughter Juliet to a Count named Paris who seeks to marry Juliet.

  Romeo and his friends (Benvolio and Mercutio) hear of the party and resolve to go in disguise. Romeo hopes to see his beloved Rosaline at the party. Instead, while there, he meets Juliet and falls instantly in love with her.

  Tybalt recognizes the Montague boys and forces them to leave just as Romeo and Juliet discover one another.
• Act 2

  Romeo lingers near the Capulet house to talk with Juliet when she appears in her window. The pair declare their love for one another and intend to marry the next day. With the help of Juliet's Nurse, the lovers arrange to marry when Juliet goes for confession at the cell of Friar Laurence. There, they are secretly married.
• Act 3

  Following the secret marriage, Tybalt sends a challenge to Romeo. Romeo refuses to fight, which angers Mercutio who then fights with Tybalt. Mercutio is accidentally killed as Romeo intervenes to stop the fight. In ánger, Romeo pursues Tybalt, kills him, and is banished by the Prince.
• Act 4

  Lord Capulet has a plan to let Juliet marry Paris to forget her sadness at Tybalt's death but the truth is her sadness is for Romeo who was in Mantua. Paris agreed with Lord Capulet and was excited about the upcoming wedding. Juliet was shocked by the news and she doesn't want to get married to Paris.
• Act 4

  Friar Laurence helps Juliet by providing a sleeping draught that will make her seem dead. When the wedding party arrives to greet Juliet the next day, they believe she is dead. The Friar sends a messenger to warn Romeo of Juliet's plan and bids him to come to the Capulet family monument to rescue his sleeping wife.
• Act 5

  The vital message to Romeo doesn't arrive in time because the plague is in town (so the messenger cannot leave Verona). Hearing from his servant that Juliet is dead, Romeo buys poison from an Apothecary in Mantua. He returns to Verona and goes to the tomb where he surprises and kills the mourning Paris.

  Romeo takes his poison and dies, while Juliet awakens from her drugged coma.

  She learns what has happened from Friar Laurence, but she refuses to leave the tomb and stabs herself.
• Act 5

  The Friar returns with the Prince, the Capulets;

  and Romeo's lately widowed father. The deaths of their children lead the families to make peace, and they promise to erect monument in Romeo and Juliet's memory.
• Act 3

  Juliet is anxious when Romeo is late to meet her and learns of the brawl, Tybalt's death, and Romeo's banishment. Friar Laurence arranges for Romeo to spend the night with Juliet before he leaves for night Mantua. Romeo had a hard time to think about leaving Juliet because for him it is worse than dying. Meanwhile, the Capulet family grieves for Tybalt, so Lord Capulet moves Juliet's marriage to Paris to the next day. Juliet's parents are angry when Juliet doesn't want to marry Paris, but they don't know about her secret marriage to Romeo.