Mantua
Apothecary's town
Lady Montague
Most likely died of a heart attack
Lady Capulet
Is likely only 26 or 27 years old
Verona
Hometown of Romeo and Juliet
Balthasar
Falls asleep in the graveyard
Friar Lawrence
Says that poison and medicine reside in all living things
Friar John
Suspected of being in a house of plague infection
Benvolio
Saw Romeo on a 5 a.m. walk, but didn't talk to him
Paris
Related to Mercutio and the Prince
Tybalt
Sometimes called "The Prince of Cats
Prince Escalus
Declares Romeo banished
Mercutio
Says dreams are meaningless
Rosaline
Ignores Romeo's loving stares
Nurse
Has buried a husband and a daughter
Lord Capulet
Advances the wedding date
Lord Montague
Must now bury a wife and a son
Romeo
Believes that dreams are fate's messengers
Juliet
Says is willing to be tied to a bear or leap from a tower
Nightengale
Sings in the middle of the night
Apothecary
Breaks the law because he's starving to death
True
Prince Escalus was related to two of the slain people
False
Benvolio and Romeo overhear Lord Capulet talking about the party he plans to throw
False
Romeo compares Juliet to the Sun, a Jewel, and the white foam on an ocean wave
False
Friar Lawrence will be executed for his role in deceit
True
Juliet sends the Nurse to find Romeo after she learns that he is banished
False
If Juliet does not marry Paris, Capulet threatens to murder her
False
Peter tells Romeo that Juliet is dead
False
On the day of her death, Juliet was 14 years old
True
The Capulet parents believe Juliet is crying about Tybalt's death
True
Shakespeare begins only the first two acts of the play with a sonnet
False
The quarrel between the Montagues and the Capulets was started by Romeo's grandmother
True
On the morning of her marriage to Paris, Juliet appears to be dead
True
Paris did not kill anyone in the play
False
Including himself, Romeo stabbed or poisoned two people
False
Paris was a Montague
Juliet
My only love sprung from my only hate. Too early seen unknown and known too late.
Mercutio
Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough.
Lord Capulet
...get thee to church o' Thursday Or else never after look me in the face.
Romeo
With Rosaline, my ghostly father? No; I have forgot that name, and that name's woe.
Tybalt
What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell... and thee. Have at thee coward.
Paris
These times of woe afford no time to woo. Madam, good night. Commend me to your daughter.
Juliet
Oh happy daggar! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.
Friar Lawrence
Take this vial, being then in bed, And this distilled liquor drink thou of.
Lord Montague
Many a morning hath he there been seen with tears augmenting the fresh morning's dew.
Juliet
You kiss by the book.
Nurse
Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And I might live to see thee married once, I have my wish.
Lord Capulet
Let two more summers wither in their pride Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
Romeo
She doth teach the torches to burn bright... Beauty too rich for use, for earth to dear.
Lord Capulet
Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
Prince Escalus
For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.