Romeo and Juliet

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A Summary and Analysis of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)

Although it was first performed in the 1590s, the first  documented  performance of Romeo and Juliet is from 1662. The diarist Samuel Pepys was in the audience, and recorded that he ‘saw “Romeo and Juliet,” the first time it was ever acted; but it is a play of itself the worst that ever I heard in my life, and the worst acted that ever I saw these people do.’

Despite Pepys’ dislike, the play is one of Shakespeare’s best-loved and most famous, and the story of Romeo and Juliet is well known. However, the play has become so embedded in the popular psyche that Shakespeare’s considerably more complex play has been reduced to a few key aspects: ‘star-cross’d lovers’, a teenage love story, and the suicide of the two protagonists.

In the summary and analysis that follow, we realise that Romeo and Juliet is much more than a tragic love story.

Romeo and Juliet : brief summary

After the Prologue has set the scene – we have two feuding households, Montagues and Capulets, in the city-state of Verona; and young Romeo is a Montague while Juliet, with whom Romeo is destined to fall in love, is from the Capulet family, sworn enemies of the Montagues – the play proper begins with servants of the two feuding households taunting each other in the street.

When Benvolio, a member of house Montague, arrives and clashes with Tybalt of house Capulet, a scuffle breaks out, and it is only when Capulet himself and his wife, Lady Capulet, appear that the fighting stops. Old Montague and his wife then show up, and the Prince of Verona, Escalus, arrives and chastises the people for fighting. Everyone leaves except Old Montague, his wife, and Benvolio, Montague’s nephew. Benvolio tells them that Romeo has locked himself away, but he doesn’t know why.

Romeo appears and Benvolio asks his cousin what is wrong, and Romeo starts speaking in paradoxes, a sure sign that he’s in love. He claims he loves Rosaline, but will not return any man’s love. A servant appears with a note, and Romeo and Benvolio learn that the Capulets are holding a masked ball.

Benvolio tells Romeo he should attend, even though he is a Montague, as he will find more beautiful women than Rosaline to fall in love with. Meanwhile, Lady Capulet asks her daughter Juliet whether she has given any thought to marriage, and tells Juliet that a man named Paris would make an excellent husband for her.

Romeo attends the Capulets’ masked ball, with his friend Mercutio. Mercutio tells Romeo about a fairy named Queen Mab who enters young men’s minds as they dream, and makes them dream of love and romance. At the masked ball, Romeo spies Juliet and instantly falls in love with her; she also falls for him.

They kiss, but then Tybalt, Juliet’s kinsman, spots Romeo and recognising him as a Montague, plans to confront him. Old Capulet tells him not to do so, and Tybalt reluctantly agrees. When Juliet enquires after who Romeo is, she is distraught to learn that he is a Montague and thus a member of the family that is her family’s sworn enemies.

Romeo breaks into the gardens of Juliet’s parents’ house and speaks to her at her bedroom window. The two of them pledge their love for each other, and arrange to be secretly married the following night. Romeo goes to see a churchman, Friar Laurence, who agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet.

After the wedding, the feud between the two families becomes violent again: Tybalt kills Mercutio in a fight, and Romeo kills Tybalt in retaliation. The Prince banishes Romeo from Verona for his crime.

Juliet is told by her father that she will marry Paris, so Juliet goes to seek Friar Laurence’s help in getting out of it. He tells her to take a sleeping potion which will make her appear to be dead for two nights; she will be laid to rest in the family vault, and Romeo (who will be informed of the plan) can secretly come to her there.

However, although that part of the plan goes fine, the message to Romeo doesn’t arrive; instead, he hears that Juliet has actually died. He secretly visits her at the family vault, but his grieving is interrupted by the arrival of Paris, who is there to lay flowers. The two of them fight, and Romeo kills him.

Convinced that Juliet is really dead, Romeo drinks poison in order to join Juliet in death. Juliet wakes from her slumber induced by the sleeping draught to find Romeo dead at her side. She stabs herself.

The play ends with Friar Laurence telling the story to the two feuding families. The Prince tells them to put their rivalry behind them and live in peace.

Romeo and Juliet : analysis

How should we analyse Romeo and Juliet , one of Shakespeare’s most famous and frequently studied, performed, and adapted plays? Is Romeo and Juliet the great love story that it’s often interpreted as, and what does it say about the play – if it is a celebration of young love – that it ends with the deaths of both romantic leads?

It’s worth bearing in mind that Romeo and Juliet do not kill themselves specifically because they are forbidden to be together, but rather because a chain of events (of which their families’ ongoing feud with each other is but one) and a message that never arrives lead to a misunderstanding which results in their suicides.

Romeo and Juliet is often read as both a tragedy and a great celebration of romantic love, but it clearly throws out some difficult questions about the nature of love, questions which are rendered even more pressing when we consider the headlong nature of the play’s action and the fact that Romeo and Juliet meet, marry, and die all within the space of a few days.

Below, we offer some notes towards an analysis of this classic Shakespeare play and explore some of the play’s most salient themes.

It’s worth starting with a consideration of just what Shakespeare did with his source material. Interestingly, two families known as the Montagues and Capulets appear to have actually existed in medieval Italy: the first reference to ‘Montagues and Capulets’ is, curiously, in the poetry of Dante (1265-1321), not Shakespeare.

In Dante’s early fourteenth-century epic poem, the  Divine Comedy , he makes reference to two warring Italian families: ‘Come and see, you who are negligent, / Montagues and Capulets, Monaldi and Filippeschi / One lot already grieving, the other in fear’ ( Purgatorio , canto VI). Precisely why the families are in a feud with one another is never revealed in Shakespeare’s play, so we are encouraged to take this at face value.

The play’s most famous line references the feud between the two families, which means Romeo and Juliet cannot be together. And the line, when we stop and consider it, is more than a little baffling. The line is spoken by Juliet: ‘Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?’ Of course, ‘wherefore’ doesn’t mean ‘where’ – it means ‘why’.

But that doesn’t exactly clear up the whys and the wherefores. The question still doesn’t appear to make any sense: Romeo’s problem isn’t his first name, but his family name, Montague. Surely, since she fancies him, Juliet is quite pleased with ‘Romeo’ as he is – it’s his family that are the problem. Solutions  have been proposed to this conundrum , but none is completely satisfying.

There are a number of notable things Shakespeare did with his source material. The Italian story ‘Mariotto and Gianozza’, printed in 1476, contained many of the plot elements of Shakespeare’s  Romeo and Juliet . Shakespeare’s source for the play’s story was Arthur Brooke’s  The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet  (1562), an English verse translation of this Italian tale.

The moral of Brooke’s tale is that young love ends in disaster for their elders, and is best reined in; Shakespeare changed that. In Romeo and Juliet , the headlong passion and excitement of young love is celebrated, even though confusion leads to the deaths of the young lovers. But through their deaths, and the example their love set for their parents, the two families vow to be reconciled to each other.

Shakespeare also makes Juliet a thirteen-year-old girl in his play, which is odd for a number of reasons. We know that  Romeo and Juliet  is about young love – the ‘pair of star-cross’d lovers’, who belong to rival families in Verona – but what is odd about Shakespeare’s play is how young he makes Juliet.

In Brooke’s verse rendition of the story, Juliet is sixteen. But when Shakespeare dramatised the story, he made Juliet several years younger, with Romeo’s age unspecified. As Lady Capulet reveals, Juliet is ‘not [yet] fourteen’, and this point is made to us several times, as if Shakespeare wishes to draw attention to it and make sure we don’t forget it.

This makes sense in so far as Juliet represents young love, but what makes it unsettling – particularly for modern audiences – is the fact that this makes Juliet a girl of thirteen when she enjoys her night of wedded bliss with Romeo. As John Sutherland puts it in his (and Cedric Watts’) engaging  Oxford World’s Classics: Henry V, War Criminal?: and Other Shakespeare Puzzles , ‘In a contemporary court of law [Romeo] would receive a longer sentence for what he does to Juliet than for what he does to Tybalt.’

There appears to be no satisfactory answer to this question, but one possible explanation lies in one of the play’s recurring themes: bawdiness and sexual familiarity. Perhaps surprisingly given the youthfulness of its tragic heroine, Romeo and Juliet is shot through with bawdy jokes, double entendres, and allusions to sex, made by a number of the characters.

These references to physical love serve to make Juliet’s innocence, and subsequent passionate romance with Romeo, even more noticeable: the journey both Romeo and Juliet undertake is one from innocence (Romeo pointlessly and naively pursuing Rosaline; Juliet unversed in the ways of love) to experience.

In the last analysis, Romeo and Juliet is a classic depiction of forbidden love, but it is also far more sexually aware, more ‘adult’, than many people realise.

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Character Analysis of Romeo and Juliet

Getting familiar with the characters in Romeo and Juliet will help you in your exams and your understanding of Shakespeare. This includes the understanding of each character’s traits, motivations and development throughout the play. It will equip you with the ability to construct well-rounded answers.

The characters we’ll look at are:

Friar Lawrence

Romeo Montague is one of the young central characters in Romeo and Juliet , and the son of Lord Montague and Lady Montague.

He starts the play as a lovesick teenager, trapped by his infatuation for Rosaline. A notable characteristic of Romeo is that he is not interested in the family feud, as his mind is predominantly in the realm of love. However, his naive perception of love undergoes a profound transformation when he meets Juliet at the Capulet masquerade ball. That moment marks his transition from a hopeless romantic to a passionate lover:

His initial love for Rosaline pales in comparison to the poetic love he develops for Juliet, which he articulates in lines such as:

“O she doth teach the torches to burn bright. It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night As a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear. “

There is a change in his language, it is richer, deeper and more original. This signifies the authenticity and depth of his newfound love, which is very different from his initial infatuation.

Romeo’s personality is romantic, impulsive and intense. These are traits that dictate his actions throughout the play. He navigates the turbulent waters of love with reckless abandon, willing to abandon everything, including his family and moral standings, just to be with Juliet.

His undying passion leads him to exclaim, “I defy you, stars! “, which is a bold declaration of his readiness to challenge fate for Juliet’s sake.

However, his intensity, paired with his youthful impulsivity, is what sows the seeds of his tragic death. Therefore, Romeo’s character arc serves as a reminder of the double-edged sword that is passionate love. It is capable of igniting the brightest flame and causing deep despair.

Juliet Capulet is one of the young central characters, and the daughter of Lord Capulet and Lady Capulet. At the start of the play, she is an obedient and dutiful daughter who follows the expectations her family has set for her future. Not yet fourteen, she is depicted as somewhat naive about the complexities of love. This is a fact echoed by Lady Capulet’s remark:

“My child is yet a stranger in the world, she hath not seen the charge of fourteen years…”

This line not only serves to remind the audience of Juliet’s age, but also her immaturity. This innocence makes her rapid transition into passionate love with Romeo somewhat shocking, given her initial lack of experience.

Her first encounter with Romeo ignites a spark within her that fuels a journey of self-discovery and empowerment. She starts to challenge the rigid societal norms that have governed Verona for centuries and follow her heart. She shows bravery by trusting Romeo and disobeying her parents. It is through her love for Romeo that she finds not only romance but also her own voice and agency.

Her transformation reaches a peak in her decision to forge a path with Romeo at any cost, highlighted in her determined words:

“will kiss thy lips. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them To make me die with a restorative.”

These words are evidence of her transition from innocence to an understanding of love and sacrifice. She is strong in her determination to put an end to her life without her true love. Her final act of taking her own life is not just a tragic end but also a bold assertion of her newfound autonomy and strength.

Friar Lawrence is often viewed as the voice of wisdom and guidance in the chaotic world of Romeo and Juliet . He also possesses a deep understanding of the natural world, often using plants as metaphors for life’s dualities, as evidenced in lines such as:

“ Within the infant rind of this weak flower Poison hath residence and medicine power. “

He is talking about a young, delicate flower which has yet to fully develop and mature. Despite seeming frail, it harbours both “poison” and “medicine power”, indicating that it can both heal and harm.

Throughout the narrative, Friar emerges as a confidant and mentor to Romeo and Juliet. He plays a pivotal role in their lives, hoping that their marriage will bring an end to the long-standing feud between the Montagues and Capulets. This sentiment is echoed in his optimistic words:

“For this alliance may so happy prove To turn your households’ rancor to pure love. “

However, he is also scheming and secretive, which is a flawed aspect of his character. Friar marries Romeo and Juliet in secret and makes the unwise plan for Juliet to drink the potion, while failing to send the message to Romeo. Although he is well-intentioned, his actions lead to the tragic ending.

Mercutio is Romeo’s loyal and quick-witted friend. He is funny and mischievous, embodying the spirit of youth and carefree living. This is a contrast to the intense and dramatic love affair that unfolds between the central characters. Mercutio often uses his humour to highlight the absurdities of society. For example, when describing Tybalt as “More than Prince of Cats. Oh, he’s the courageous captain of compliments “

Mercutio’s sceptical stance on love and fate separates him from the other characters. He offers a negative, but also realistic perspective on the world they live in.

Mercutio’s death is a turning point in the play, transitioning from more light-hearted and comedic to a tragic tale. When Mercutio is dying, he blames people (the Capulets and Montagues), and not fate for his death:

“A plague o’ both your houses. They have made worms’ meat of me .”

This serves not only as a curse but also as a critique of the futile family feud. Mercutio’s words serve as a warning for the fatal consequences that await Verona’s “star-crossed lovers.

His death is a reminder of the price of unresolved hatred and the innocent lives caught in the crossfire of a senseless conflict.

The nurse is one of Juliet’s most trusted friends and a source of comic relief in the play. She provides guidance, and nurtures Juliet with an almost maternal affection. The Nurse is much more emotionally supportive of Juliet than Lady Capulet (Juliet’s mother). She wants Juliet to find joy in love, which is evident when she says to her:

“Go girl; seek happy nights to happy days “

In fact, her role extends beyond just being a nurturer; she plays an important role in blossoming the romance between Romeo and Juliet. Unfortunately, her misguided advice and lack of foresight feed into the tragic ending of the story. The Nurse represents love, loyalty and the devastating consequences of misaligned trust.

Tybalt is Juliet’s cousin and a Capulet, with an unwavering loyalty to his family. He is fiery and hot-tempered, embodying the violence and hatred that fuels the feud between the Montagues and Capulets. As a result, he serves as a catalyst for the tragedy.

When he sees Romeo at the Capulet party, he demands, “Fetch me my rapier, boy” , which is clear evidence of his combative nature. His first response is to start a fight.

Tybalt has stated his own hatred of peace and harmony, “Peace? I hate that word” . He is a reflection of the toxic cycle of vengeance and hatred that permeates Veronian society. His pursuit of revenge spirals into a catastrophic series of events, which reveals the destructive potential of grudges, which can destroy individuals or society as a whole.

Benvolio is Romeo’s cousin and a Montague. He is a stark contrast to Tybalt. Despite being a Montague, he has a desire for peace and his character offers a glimmer of hope for reconciliation between the two families.

Benvolio attempts to calm the tense situations around him and encourage harmony. This is evident in his pleas like, “Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace! Thou talkst of nothing “, acting as the voice of reason. He highlights the importance of empathy and understanding in resolving conflicts.

His commitment to truth and harmony is encapsulated in his heartfelt words, “ This is the truth, or let Benvolio die ,” highlighting a willingness to stake his integrity in his pursuit of peace. Benvolio stands as a reminder of the human capacity for empathy and the importance of forming connections based on understanding and mutual respect, even in dreadful circumstances.

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Romeo and Juliet

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Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows, Doth with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which, but their children's end, nought could remove, Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; The which if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

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Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first created; O heavy lightness! serious vanity! Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!

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Romeo: I dream'd a dream to-night. Mercutio: And so did I. Romeo: Well, what was yours? Mercutio: That dreamers often lie.

Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear, Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand, And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand. Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

You kiss by th’ book.

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; — Thou art thyself though, not a Montague. What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What's in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other word would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title: — Romeo, doff thy name; And for thy name, which is no part of thee, Take all myself.

I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptis'd; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

Good-night, good-night! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good-night till it be morrow.

Romeo, the hate I bear thee can afford No better term than this: thou art a villain.

Romeo: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much. Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

O, I am fortune's fool!

Come, gentle night, — come, loving black brow'd night, Give me my Romeo; and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of Heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.

Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear; Nightly she sings on yond pomegranate tree. Believe me love, it was the nightingale.

Then I defy you, stars!

O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. — Thus with a kiss I die.

Yea, noise, then I'll be brief; O, happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rest, and let me die.

For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

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Romeo and Juliet Character Analysis Essay

The character I have chosen for my essay from Romeo and Juliet is Romeo. Romeo is the main character of the story, the hero and the protagonist. Romeo’s role in the story is defined by his search for love, first with Rosaline where his heart is seemingly broken, then with Juliet who puts back together his love. When Romeo saw Juliet he loved her instantly but he has to go through massive amounts of tribulations just to be with Juliet. Romeo is part of the Montague family and Romeos love Juliet is a Capulet, the very family his family is feuding with. Romeo is on a quest to be with Juliet no matter what the cost and many things get in his way.

Romeo has many positive characteristics as well as many flaws. Romeo’s positive traits include his great passion, his incredible loyalty to his friends and family, his ability to love and his desire for peace in both families. Romeo’s flaws include loving too strongly too fast, he is overly dramatic, he is a murderer who has killed two people, he is impulsive, immature and he’ll put his desire for revenge above Juliet’s feelings.

Romeo’s core quest in this story is to find love, which he does twice in this particular book but discovers later his only real love is Juliet. Romeo is willing to do anything it takes to love Juliet. When Romeo was fighting Talbot he continued to say nothing but nice things and showed great respect to Talbot. Romeo killed Talbot because he didn’t take in consideration Juliet’s feelings above his own desire for revenge. This action shows that Romeo is well-meaning but impulsive and selfish in his actions.

Romeo has many interactions with others where he speaks of romantic love calling Juliet his “bright angel” and a “dear saint” speaking of Juliet he is generally spiritual, intense and innocent. Characters like Mercutio and Nurse speak of love in crude sexual ways. Romeo is in love with being in love in this book. At first he seems devastated by Rosaline’s resistance to a relationship and then almost in the same day falls in love at first sight with Juliet.

During the course of the story Romeo overcomes a great deal and matures some. In the beginning Romeo is in love with the concept of love but he doesn’t actually love Rosaline. As the story goes on Romeo matures and realizes that his love for Juliet is real but the city of Verona has a feud going on and their tragic story of love can never really fully bloom because they cannot be together. By the end of the play Romeo has been banished and is isolated from his friends and family causing him to mature very quickly. There is no true resolution to the character’s emotional or spiritual growth because Romeo impulsively drinks the poison that causes him to die before Juliet wakes up, that is why the play is a tragedy.

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