Author: Kahu Allan

Place: Street in Verona

Time: Monday, midday

Characters: Mercutio, Benvolio, Romeo, Nurse, Peter

Mercutio and benvolio are still looking for Romeo in the streets. He then appears and shortly afterwards Romeo talks to the Nurse about the marrying of Juliet. The Nurse agrees to pass on the message to go to Friar Lawrence’s cell.

Quote: “Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead, stabbed with a white wench’s black eye, run through the ear with a love song, the very pin of his heart cleft with a blind bow-boy’s butt shaft (cupid’s arrow) and he is a man to encounter Tybalt?”

Place: Friar Lawrence’s cell

Time: Monday Morning

Characters: Friar Lawrence, Romeo.

Friar Lawrence is alone picking herbs and comparing them to virtues of humans alone when Romeo arrives and tells him of his love for Juliet and his wish to marry her, the enemies daughter. Friar Lawrence originally disagreed but then saw that it could turn the hatred between the families to friendship.

Quote: “For this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households rancour to pure love.”

Soliloquy (speaking thoughts out loud): “In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will and where the worser predominant full soon canker death eats up that plant”

Place: Capulet orchard

Time: Late night early morning

Characters: Romeo, Juliet.

This is one of Shakespeare’s most famous scenes, the balcony scene where Romeo and Juliet discuss their future romance wise, what they would do for eachother and the danger surrounding their love.

Place: An orchid outside Capulet house

Time: Late night/early morning

Characters: Romeo, Benvolio and Mercutio

Mercutio and Benvolio are trying to find Romeo using Rosaline as a motivator.

Time: Night.

Place: Capulet household.

Characters: Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt, Capulet, Cousin Capulet, Nurse, Multiple Servants, Benvolio.

At the party, Capulet welcomes the guests inside and Romeo spots Juliet in the crowd and it’s love at first sight. Tybalt finds Romeo but is restrained by Capulet before a scene is caused. Romeo and Juliet kiss and Romeo flees without Juliet knowing his name of house. Nurse then tells her about Romeo.

Quote: What lady’s that which doth enrich the hand of yonder knight?

“But he that hath the steerage of my course direct my sail.”

The metaphor here is that Romeo is a boat. Alone in a large ocean, alone and completely alone. The boat has no control over the waters of fate but “he that hath the steerage” can navigate the waters of fate and decide on the location. It is always a planned before however. You can’t just set off without preparing. This is why the navigator will know the destination before the journey. It could be planned months ahead, maybe years. But Romeo doesn’t know this course. He is just a vessel in his mind. He is making God steer him to wherever planned. The same metaphor is used in both the book and the movie. It has to have a significant meaning in the story then.

In the movie the scene that the metaphor appears is where Romeo gives up to his decided fate and to let God take over. He believes it is futile for him to resist fate and so he takes an unknown drug and he is left in the worlds control. He makes the metaphor at that moment because he believes that something major is going to happen at the party. He cant stop what will happen because it was told aeons ago. That how fate works.

Time: Afternoon.

Place: Outside the Capulet residence.

Characters: Romeo, Benvolio, Mercutio.

They are disguised outside the house. Romeo explained that he feels something in there will lead to his death. He found that in a dream. Mercutio convinces him dreams are unreliable and he is either coming or not. Romeo goes along with “God’s plan”

Quote: “With this night’s revels, and expire the term of a despisèd life closed in my breast by some vile forfeit of untimely death. But he that hath the steerage of my course”

Two households, both alike in dignity, (two families with same dignity and honor)
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, (the story is set in Verona, Italy)
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, (from old dislikes rises betrayal)
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 misadventure’d piteous overthrows
Do 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.

Place: The town of Verona, Italy.

Sunday morning, year unknown.

Characters: Gregory, Sampson, Abraham, Balthazar (servants), Benvolio, Tybalt, Prince Escalus, Lady Montague, Old Montague, Lady Capulet, Old Capulet, Romeo.

Servants from two rival families start a fight. A cousin of one of the families attempts to break the fight up and only makes it worse. After the prince issues death threats the fight is stopped. Romeo is later found depressed in a garden wondering about love.

“If ever you disturb our streets again, 
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. 
For this time, all the rest depart away” The prince Escalus.

Time: Sunday afternoon.

Place, Capulet Household.

Characters, Lady Capulet, Nurse, Juliet, Serving man.

Lady Capulet wants to speak to Juliet about marrying Paris. Lady Capulet asks Nurse if Juliet is of age. She then goes into a long story and eventually stops. Juliet disagrees but is ok to see him at the party. The Servingman tells them to come to the party, the guests are arriving.

Quote:”I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; but no more deep will I endart mine eye.” Juliet