Place: Capulet Tomb
Time: Wednesday Night
Characters: Paris, Page, Romeo, Balthasar, Friar Lawrence, Juliet, Captain of the Watch, Watchmen (3), Prince Escalus, Capulet, Lady Capulet and Montague.
Paris is saying goodbye to Juliet when Romeo arrives. Paris recognises him as the murderer of Tybalt and he thinks he is at the tomb to destroy it. They fight and Paris is killed. He is laid in the tomb by Juliet and Romeo drinks the poison he bought in Mantua. Juliet wakes and stabs herself when she sees Romeo’s dead body. The Friar arrives and is the found by the Watch. The Captain of the Watch brings the family to the tomb and Friar explains Romeo and Juliet’s story to them. Capulet agrees to make a statue of Romeo and Montague offers to make a statue of Juliet from solid gold. The families are brought together.
Quote: “A glooming peace this morning with it brings brings, the sun for sorrow will not show his head. Go hence to have more talk of these sad things, some shall be pardon’d and some punished: For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and Romeo.”