When the Capulets and Montagues painfully realized what happened to their children, they agree to put an end to their meaningless years of fighting. She takes Romeo’s dagger and kills herself. Juliet wakes up and finds Romeo lying next to her.

Romeo returns to Verona, goes to Juliet’s tomb and drinks a strong poison and dies. Montague: Who started all of this drama (to Benvolio) Tell us nephew, were you here when it began Benvolio: Your enemys servants were fighting and started. Instead, Romeo hears that Juliet is dead. Friar Laurence’s message never makes it to Romeo. Juliet follows her part of the plan, but something goes wrong. Meanwhile, Friar Laurence will send a message to Romeo to come back to Verona and meet Juliet when she wakes up so then they will be able to leave Verona together. He gives her a strong potion that will make her fall into a deep sleep for 40 hours but everyone else will think she is dead. Shakespeares play about the doomed romance of two teenagers from feuding families is the most famous love story ever written. Juliet’s father forces her to marry Count Paris. That play is the one that audiences bring with them to any staging or screening of Shakespeares script. Romeo, angrily, kills Tybalt and for his action he is banished from Verona. Romeo refuses to fight but Mercutio agrees instead. Comes with a character handout for students to research the characters before they begin Why not try my Romeo and Juliet full Shakespeare drama unit The full. On Romeo’s way home from the wedding, Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, challenges Romeo to a duel. The next day Romeo and Juliet go to Friar Laurence who agrees to marry them. At the famous “balcony scene”, they agree to get married even though their families would never accept it. Romeo decides to sneak to Juliet’s bedroom window. But they are both told that their families are enemies. Mercutio, his closest friend, encourages him to go to a costume party at the Capulets’.Īt the party, Romeo meets Juliet Capulet and falls instantly in love with her and so does she.

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