ENGLISH 8 : TERM 2

• The Nurse - Capulet’s servant and confidant to Juliet. Acts as messenger between Romeo & Juliet
• Lady Capulet - Juliet’s mother who is cold and calculating in her desire that Juliet marry Paris
• Lord Capulet - Juliet’s irritable and irrational father who demands she marry Paris
• Paris - Juliet’s suitor and cousin of the prince. Killed by Romeo at the Capulet Tomb
• Tybalt - Juliet’s hot-headed cousin; kills Mercutio, then is killed by romeo
• Prince - Banishes Romeo from Verona
• Beavolio - Romeo’s peacable good-natured friend
• Mercutio - Romeo’s witty and loyal friend who is slain by Tybalt when defending Romeo
• Apothecary - illegally sells Romeo poison
• Lady Montague - Romeo’s mother who dies of grief when Romeo is banished
• Lord Montague - Romeo’s father who, along with capulet, originated the feud between the families
• Friar Laurence - Marries Romeo and Juliet and concocts the plan to fake Juliet’s death
• Friar John - Sent to Mantus to tell Romeo of the Frier’s plan. He is quarantined and never arrives
• Globe Theatre - was owned by Lord chamberlein’s men because Shakespeare cannot afford it
• Tragedy - Is a story with an unhappy ending
• The Romeo $ Juliet play is set in Renaissance Verona in Italy
• Yeaman - is a person who owns a large variety of land
• Trodesmen - are people who trade and exports good and valued items to other societies and countries
• The Great Chain of Being - A strict religious structure of all matter and life upon earth that had been believed it was decreed by God
• Mortality Rates - the amount of deaths on a large scale