The deaths of Tybalt and Mercutio occur in Act 3 Scene 1. The scene begins with Benvolio and Mercutio talking. Benvolio is trying to persuade Mercutio to leave because, if the Capulets are around, there would be trouble e. g. “I pray thee good Mercutio let’s retire”. Benvolio is used by Shakespeare as a peacemaker, […]

Scene one is supported by the prologue in many ways. In the first scene you see two apparently daring men, showing bravado in the way of the Montague’. There discussion starts as a petty match of vaunting, little do they know that it will soon escalate. This takes its cue from the prologue because it […]

At about two o’clock. The argument between the Montague and the Capulet has once more messed up the whole town. A woman with a baby said: “It is not safe to walk on the streets with children any more. This is the third time that the two (Montague and Capulet) families have been fighting against […]

In the opening of the fight scene the Montague boys are in their car driving towards the gas station messing about playing their music very loud . in this part of the scene the boys are all laughing and shouting until they pull into the station itself and then realize their worst enemies are there […]

The characters are utilised by Shakespeare to highlight a sense of loss and desperation. The “Captain” who is a neutral figure, expresses a sense of remorse and sadness when he sees Romeo and Juliet’s dead bodies as a “pitiful site”, also illuminating a sense of universal suffering. Juliet’s “newly dead” body is used so that […]

The scene is set in a small garden, with a few bushes and perhaps a fountain. There is a house, of which one of the windows is Juliet’s, but there is no balcony. It is quite minimalist, though there are some plants, but only one window, with a muslin curtain which flutters in the wind […]

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet shows how love between the Capulet Romeo and Montague Juliet resolves an “ancient” conflict between the two families. The play was first performed in 1595, the play was Shakespeare’s first tragedy genre. Shakespeare believes the two lovers are bound by fate, “star-crossed”. We know that the hatred shown between both families […]

William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” was written in the early 1590’s and is still considered to be one of his finest pieces of work. The storyline is based on a translation of an Italian poem and is also influenced by tales of famous family feuds. Romeo and Juliet is a great example of an early […]

Romeo and Juliet is a classical play written in the Elizabethan period, between the years 1550’s and 1600’s. It is an archetypal love story, written by Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) in the year 1595. Theatres were not as enhanced as today then. Hence the plot and the scheme of the story played a strong importance […]