![]() The Montagues and Capulets, finding their dead children, vow to reconcile. Juliet wakes and refuses to flee with the Friar - instead, she too kills herself with Romeo’s dagger. The message informing Romeo of this plan is waylaid, and Romeo only hears of Juliet’s death and rushes to her tomb to poison himself. Juliet is left to find a way to reunite with Romeo as her parents try to rush her into a marriage to Paris, the Prince of Verona’s cousin.Īfter her father threatens to disown her if she refuses to marry, Friar Lawrence helps Juliet devise a scheme to pretend to be dead on the morning of her wedding. ![]() With the help of Romeo’s mentor Friar Lawrence and Juliet’s Nurse, the young lovers secretly marry - but after a fight between Juliet’s hot-tempered cousin Tybalt and Romeo’s reckless friend Mercutio ends in Mercutio’s death, Romeo takes revenge by killing Tybalt and is banished from the city. At a party, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet meet and fall in love in defiance of their families’ rivalry. The warring Capulet and Montague families have the city of Verona in disarray. ![]() ![]() Likely written about 1595, Romeo and Juliet adapts an Italian novella into one of the most famous tragedies of all time. Learn more about Romeo and Juliet below, with a plot summary, character list, and top quotes from the Shakespeare play. We all probably had to read Romeo and Juliet in school, but there’s so much more than meets the surface in this story of Shakespeare’s titular star-crossed lovers. ![]()
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