Excerpted play script version Romeo and Juliet

The priest thinks of a plan – he will procure a potion for her to take. Juliet is frantic and asks Friar Lawrence for help. Meanwhile, Juliet’s father has agreed that Count Paris, a distant relative, can marry his daughter. Friar Lawrence says he will arrange for the couple to spend a night together before Romeo leaves Verona for Mantua. Nurse, Juliet’s faithful servant, arrives and tells him Juliet is heartsick about his banishment. He learns that Prince Escalus has banished him in punishment, and as far as Romeo is concerned, he may as well be dead. Horrified, Romeo realizes that this will exacerbate the tensions between the Capulets and his family, and rushes to Friar Lawrence for help. When Tybalt returns, Romeo kills him to avenge Mercutio. Romeo gets between the young men and Mercutio is mortally slain, but not before he blames Romeo for his death. The next day, being married to Juliet, Romeo is out walking in Verona when he comes upon his friend Mercutio fighting with Tybalt who is a Capulet relative. He does not go home but straight to the Friar’s cell where he convinces the priest to marry him to Juliet – Friar Lawrence agrees, if only to end the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues. She and Romeo swear their love for each other and Romeo hatches a plan to get his priest, Friar Lawrence to marry them. He catches sight of Juliet on the balcony, who is talking about her love for him. Romeo hopes to catch a glimpse of Rosaline, but instead is bewitched by the lovely Juliet, and falls quickly in love.Īfter leaving the party, Romeo leaves his friends Benvolio and Mercutio behind and climbs over the Capulets’ garden wall. His friends know about his infatuation and they arrange to go to party at the Capulets, arriving in masks to hide their identities. Romeo, when the play begins, is besotted with another Capulet, the pretty Rosaline. When family members or their servants meet on the streets of Verona, brawls often ensue.

Capulet has been feuding with another powerful family, the Montagues, for many years.

Juliet, not yet fourteen, is the only daughter of Capulet the head of a family of wealth and influence. It is set in Verona, a city-state of Italy, ruled by Prince Escalus. Romeo and Juliet, the tale of ‘star-crossed lovers’, is a story about two teenagers passionately in love despite their parents’ feud.

Excerpted play script version Romeo and Juliet