act memorization Flashcards
act 1 scene 1
- servants get confrontational
- tybault draws on benvolio, officers break it up
- prince orders families to stop fighting or face death
- romeo admits to being distracted by love
act 1 scene 2
- capulet discusses juliet with paris
- benvolio urges romeo to attend capulet feast so he can compare rosaline to other girls
act 1 scene 3
- lady capulet and the nurse reflect on how juliet should think about marriage
- nurse runs on about her raising juliet
- lady capulet and the nurse sell juliet on paris
act 1 scene 4
- romeo second guesses going to the ball
- mercutio is ‘long winded’ in showing romeo not to live in his dreams
act 1 scene 5
- tybault sees a montague, while romeo spots juliet and tybault is angry
- romeo and juliet kiss and fall in love
- nurse tells romeo that juliet is a capulet and juliet vise versa
act 2 scene 1
- romeo doesn’t want to leave the party, so he hides in the orchard bushes in the capulet property
- benvolio and mercutio make jokes about romeo and call out to him bur romeo doesn’t make his prescence known
act 2 scene 2
- juliet’s soliloquy about her being distraught knowing that romeo is a montague
- romeo hears and presents himself
- they exchange vows
- juliet is nervous about romeo being on the property
act 2 scene 3
- fr lawrence’s soliloquy
- romeo requests lawrence to wed him and juliet
- fr thinks it could join the families togetha
act 2 scene 4
-sex jokes about the nurse
-mercutio makes it clear that he hates tybault
romeo tells the nurse to tell juliet that the wedding will take place that day
act 2 scene 5
- juliet waits anxiously for wedding plans
- nurse arrives with news out of breath
- juliet gets news to meet romeo at fr cell that afternoon
act 2 scene 6
- romeo estatic in love, fr tells him to chill
- juliet comes to the cell and they confess their love
act 3 scene 1
- tybault runs into benvolio and mercutio while looking for romeo
- romeos all giddy bc he got married
- tybault challenges romeo, but mercutio steps in
- tybault kills mercutio when romeo tries to breakup the fight
- romeo kills tybault in anger
- prince declares romeo banned from verona
act 3 scene 2
- nurse informs juliet about romeo’s banishment
- SHE SHOOKETH
act 3 scene 3
- friar tells romeo about his banishment, he shook
- he considers suicide, as he is separated from his love
- the nurse makes plans to romeo and juliet to see one another that night
act 3 scene 4
-paris drinks with lord capulet and will wed juliet in 3 days
act 3 scene 5
-romeo and juliet part ways
-lady capulet declares vengeance on tybault’s killer
and tells juliet that she is to wed paris, she rejects, they mad
-the nurse doesn’t support shit, so jul goes to friar law
act 4 scene 1
- paris requests fr. lawrence weds juliet and him in his cell
- juliet arrives too, and paris leaves
- friar sells potion plan
act 4 scene 2
-juliet apologizes and agrees to marry paris
wedding moves from thursday to wednesday
act 4 scene 3
- yet anotha juliet soliloquy
- she worries she won’t wake up from the sleeping potion but takes it anyways
act 4 scene 4
- everyone is psyched for the wedding day
- lord capulet urges to make hastle for wedding for preperations
act 4 scene 5
- everyone discovers juliet’s death
- wedding turns into a funeral
act 5 scene 1
- romeo learns of juliet’s death, becomes suicidal
- gets poison and returns to Verona
act 5 scene 2
-fr. john didn’t tell romeo about the plan because he was quarantined
act 5 scene 3
- romeo and paris get confrontational at the tomb
- romeo kills paris
- romeo lies by juliet, drinks strong poison and dies
- juliet sees romeo dead and shanks herself
- deaths bring families together
