Romeo & Juliet Flashcards
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Who starts the street brawl in Act 1 Scene 1?
Servants of the two houses: Capulet’s Sampson and Gregory against Montague’s Abram.
What does the Prince threaten after the opening brawl?
Death for anyone who disturbs Verona’s streets again.
Whom does Romeo love at the start of the play?
Rosaline, who has sworn to stay chaste.
How does Romeo find out about the Capulet feast?
A Capulet servant who cannot read asks him to read the guest list (Act 1 Scene 2).
Who asks Capulet for permission to marry Juliet in Act 1 Scene 2?
Paris.
Where do Romeo and Juliet first meet?
At the Capulets’ feast, where Romeo is wearing a mask (Act 1 Scene 5).
Who recognises Romeo by his voice at the feast?
Tybalt, who calls for his rapier.
Who stops Tybalt from attacking Romeo at the feast?
Capulet, who says Romeo “shall be endur’d”.
In which act and scene is the balcony scene?
Act 2 Scene 2, in Capulet’s garden.
Who marries Romeo and Juliet?
Friar Lawrence, in his cell (Act 2 Scene 6).
What does the Nurse fetch so Romeo can reach Juliet on their wedding night?
A rope ladder.
Who kills Mercutio?
Tybalt, under Romeo’s arm as Romeo tries to part them (Act 3 Scene 1).
Who kills Tybalt?
Romeo, in revenge for Mercutio (Act 3 Scene 1).
What is Romeo’s punishment for killing Tybalt?
Banishment from Verona; he goes to Mantua.
On which day does Capulet first fix Juliet’s wedding to Paris?
Thursday, arranged on Monday night (Act 3 Scene 4).
How long does the Friar’s potion make Juliet seem dead?
Forty-two hours (“two and forty hours”).
To which day does Capulet bring the wedding forward in Act 4 Scene 2?
Wednesday, the next day.
Who finds Juliet apparently dead on her wedding morning?
The Nurse (Act 4 Scene 5).
Who brings Romeo the news of Juliet’s death in Mantua?
Balthasar, his servant (Act 5 Scene 1).
Why does Friar John fail to deliver the Friar’s letter to Romeo?
He is shut in a house suspected of plague (Act 5 Scene 2).
How much does Romeo pay the Apothecary for poison?
Forty ducats.
Whom does Romeo kill outside the Capulet tomb?
Paris (Act 5 Scene 3).
How does Juliet kill herself?
With Romeo’s dagger.
How do Montague and Capulet end the feud?
They shake hands and promise gold statues of each other’s child.
Who is Romeo?
The son and only heir of Montague.
How old is Juliet?
Not quite fourteen; she turns fourteen on Lammas Eve.
Who is Prince Escalus?
The Prince of Verona, who rules the city and tries to keep the peace.
How is Mercutio related to the Prince?
He is the Prince’s kinsman.
Who is Paris?
A young nobleman (a County), kinsman to the Prince, who wants to marry Juliet.
Who is Benvolio?
Montague’s nephew and Romeo’s cousin and friend, who tries to keep the peace.
Who is Tybalt?
Lady Capulet’s nephew, Juliet’s hot-tempered cousin.
What does Mercutio call Tybalt in Act 2 Scene 4?
“Prince of cats”.
Who is the Nurse?
Juliet’s nurse since she was a baby, and her go-between with Romeo.
What was the name of the Nurse’s own daughter, who died?
Susan, who was the same age as Juliet.
What religious order does Friar Lawrence belong to?
The Franciscans.
Who gives Juliet the sleeping potion?
Friar Lawrence (Act 4 Scene 1).
Who is Balthasar?
Romeo’s servant.
Who is Friar John?
A Franciscan friar sent to carry Friar Lawrence’s letter to Romeo.
Who is the Apothecary?
A poor chemist in Mantua who sells Romeo poison, against Mantua’s law.
Which character tells Juliet to marry Paris after Romeo is banished?
The Nurse (Act 3 Scene 5).
Which parent tells Juliet “I have done with thee”?
Lady Capulet, after Juliet refuses Paris (Act 3 Scene 5).
What happens to Lady Montague?
She dies of grief at Romeo’s exile (reported in Act 5 Scene 3).
Which character flees the tomb, leaving Juliet alone?
Friar Lawrence: “I dare no longer stay.”
Which character is described as “a duellist, a duellist”?
Tybalt, by Mercutio (Act 2 Scene 4).
Love: whom does Romeo forget the moment he sees Juliet?
Rosaline.
Love: who warns that “These violent delights have violent ends”?
Friar Lawrence, just before the wedding (Act 2 Scene 6).
Love: which character speaks the Queen Mab speech, mocking dreams of love?
Mercutio (Act 1 Scene 4).
Conflict: which character says he hates peace as he hates hell?
Tybalt (Act 1 Scene 1).
Conflict: what insult does Sampson use to provoke the Montague servants?
He bites his thumb at them (Act 1 Scene 1).
Conflict: what does Tybalt call Romeo to provoke him in Act 3 Scene 1?
A villain.
Fate: what does the Prologue call Romeo and Juliet?
A pair of “star-cross’d lovers”.
Fate: who senses some consequence “hanging in the stars” on the way to the feast?
Romeo (Act 1 Scene 4).
Fate: which chance event stops Romeo learning of the Friar’s plan?
The plague quarantine that holds Friar John.
Family: what does Capulet threaten if Juliet will not marry Paris?
To throw her out to “hang, beg, starve, die in the streets”.
Family: who says Juliet may choose for herself in Act 1 Scene 2?
Capulet, telling Paris to win her heart.
Youth and age: who warns Romeo “they stumble that run fast”?
Friar Lawrence (Act 2 Scene 3).
Death: whom does Capulet call his son-in-law when Juliet seems dead?
Death (Act 4 Scene 5).
Light and dark: whom does Romeo compare to the sun?
Juliet: “Juliet is the sun!” (Act 2 Scene 2).
Honour and masculinity: who calls Romeo’s refusal to fight a “vile submission”?
Mercutio (Act 3 Scene 1).
Religion: where does Juliet go, claiming she needs to confess, to find a way out of the marriage?
Friar Lawrence’s cell (Act 4 Scene 1).
When was Romeo and Juliet probably written?
About 1595.
Who was on the throne when Romeo and Juliet was written?
Elizabeth I.
What was Shakespeare’s main source for the play?
Arthur Brooke’s poem The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet (1562).
In which country is the play set?
Italy: Verona, and Mantua in Act 5.
What was Shakespeare’s acting company called in the 1590s?
The Lord Chamberlain’s Men.
Who played Juliet in Shakespeare’s time?
A boy actor: women did not act on the public stage.
Who usually chose a husband for a wealthy Elizabethan daughter?
Her father, in an arranged marriage.
What is a society where men hold power over women called?
A patriarchal society.
Which Italian poet’s love sonnets does Mercutio mock Romeo with?
Petrarch’s (Act 2 Scene 4).
What was the belief that the stars shape a person’s fate called?
Astrology.
Which disease, still feared in Shakespeare’s England, delays Friar John?
Plague.
Complete the quotation: “Two households, both alike in dignity, / In fair Verona, …”
“… where we lay our scene.” The Chorus, in the Prologue.
Complete the quotation: “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / …”
“A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.” The Prologue.
Who says “What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word”?
Tybalt, to Benvolio (Act 1 Scene 1).
Complete the quotation: “O brawling love! O loving hate! …”
“O anything, of nothing first create!” Romeo (Act 1 Scene 1).
Who says “Younger than she are happy mothers made”?
Paris, to Capulet (Act 1 Scene 2).
Who says “Thou wast the prettiest babe that e’er I nurs’d”?
The Nurse, to Juliet (Act 1 Scene 3).
Complete the quotation: “O, she doth teach the torches …”
“… to burn bright!” Romeo, on first seeing Juliet (Act 1 Scene 5).
Who says “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!”?
Romeo, at the feast (Act 1 Scene 5).
Who says “You kiss by the book”?
Juliet, to Romeo (Act 1 Scene 5).
Complete the quotation: “My only love sprung from …”
“… my only hate!” Juliet (Act 1 Scene 5).
Complete the quotation: “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? / …”
“It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!” Romeo (Act 2 Scene 2).
Complete the quotation: “O Romeo, Romeo, …”
“… wherefore art thou Romeo?” Juliet (Act 2 Scene 2).
Complete the quotation: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / …”
“By any other name would smell as sweet.” Juliet (Act 2 Scene 2).
Who says “It is too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden”?
Juliet, about their vows (Act 2 Scene 2).
Complete the quotation: “Parting is such sweet sorrow / …”
“That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” Juliet (Act 2 Scene 2).
Complete the quotation: “Young men’s love then lies / …”
“Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.” Friar Lawrence (Act 2 Scene 3).
Who says “Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford / No better term than this: Thou art a villain”?
Tybalt (Act 3 Scene 1).
Who says “A plague o’ both your houses”?
Mercutio, as he dies (Act 3 Scene 1).
Complete the quotation: “Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me …”
“… a grave man.” Mercutio (Act 3 Scene 1).
Complete the quotation: “O sweet Juliet, / Thy beauty hath made me …”
“… effeminate.” Romeo (Act 3 Scene 1).
Who says “O, I am fortune’s fool!”?
Romeo, after killing Tybalt (Act 3 Scene 1).
Who says “Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill”?
The Prince, banishing Romeo (Act 3 Scene 1).
Complete the quotation: “Gallop apace, you …”
“… fiery-footed steeds.” Juliet (Act 3 Scene 2).
Who calls Romeo “Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical”?
Juliet, on hearing he killed Tybalt (Act 3 Scene 2).
Who says “Hang thee young baggage, disobedient wretch!”?
Capulet, to Juliet (Act 3 Scene 5).
Who says “Romeo’s a dishclout to him”, comparing Romeo with Paris?
The Nurse (Act 3 Scene 5).
Complete the quotation: “If all else fail, …”
“… myself have power to die.” Juliet (Act 3 Scene 5).
Who says “Death lies on her like an untimely frost”?
Capulet, finding Juliet apparently dead (Act 4 Scene 5).
Complete the quotation: “Is it even so? Then I defy you, …”
“… stars!” Romeo, hearing Juliet is dead (Act 5 Scene 1).
Who says “Thus with a kiss I die”?
Romeo, after drinking the poison (Act 5 Scene 3).
Complete the quotation: “Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O …”
“… happy dagger.” Juliet (Act 5 Scene 3).
Complete the quotation: “For never was a story of more woe / …”
“Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” The Prince, closing the play.
What genre is Romeo and Juliet?
Tragedy.
What poetic form is the Prologue written in?
A sonnet: fourteen lines ending in a rhyming couplet.
Which character speaks the Prologue?
The Chorus.
What form do Romeo and Juliet’s first fourteen lines together make in Act 1 Scene 5?
A shared sonnet.
What extended religious image runs through the lovers’ first conversation?
Pilgrims (palmers) and saints.
What device is “O heavy lightness! serious vanity!”?
Oxymoron (Romeo, Act 1 Scene 1).
Which device is at work when Juliet says “My grave is like to be my wedding bed”?
Dramatic irony: she will die for love of Romeo (Act 1 Scene 5).
What does Juliet see in her vision as Romeo leaves in Act 3 Scene 5?
Romeo looking like one dead in the bottom of a tomb: foreshadowing.
In what form do Sampson and Gregory open the play?
Prose, full of puns.
Which two birds do the lovers argue about at dawn in Act 3 Scene 5?
The nightingale (night) and the lark (morning).
What verse form do the noble characters mostly speak in?
Blank verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Over roughly how many days does the action take place?
About four days.
What is usually named as Romeo’s fatal flaw (hamartia)?
His impulsiveness: he acts in haste.