summary of romeo and Juliet 2pu
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Synopsis. The play opens on the streets of Verona, Italy, as a fight breaks out between the servants of two powerful rival families: the Capulets and the Montagues. ... At the ball, Romeo meets Juliet Capulet, and unaware that they belong to rival families, they immediately fall in love.
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On a hot morning fighting by young servants of the Capulet and Montague
families is stopped by the Prince who tells them that the next person
who breaks the peace will be punished with death.
Capulet plans a feast to introduce his daughter, Juliet, who is
almost fourteen, to the Count Paris who would like to marry her.
By a mistake of the illiterate servant Peter, Montague’s son, Romeo, and
his friends Benvolio and the Prince’s cousin Mercutio, hear of the party
and decide to go in disguise.
Romeo hopes he will see his adored Rosaline but instead
he meets and falls in love with Juliet.
Juliet’s cousin Tybalt recognises the Montagues and they are forced
to leave the party just as Romeo and Juliet have each discovered
the other’s identity. Romeo lingers near the Capulet’s house
and talks to Juliet when she appears on her balcony.
With the help of Juliet’s Nurse the lovers arrange to meet next day
at the cell of Friar Lawrence when Juliet goes for confession, and
they are married by him.
Tybalt picks a quarrel with Mercutio and his friends and Mercutio is
accidentally killed as Romeo intervenes to try to break up the fight.
Romeo pursues Tybalt in anger, kills him and is banished by the Prince
for the deed. Juliet is anxious that Romeo is late meeting her and learns
of the fighting from her Nurse. With Friar Lawrence’s help it is arranged
that Romeo will spend the night with Juliet before taking refuge at Mantua.
To calm the family’s sorrow at Tybalt’s death the day for the marriage
of Juliet to Paris is brought forward. Capulet and his wife are angry
that Juliet does not wish to marry Paris, not knowing
of her secret contract with Romeo.
Friar Lawrence helps Juliet by providing a sleeping potion that will
make everyone think she’s dead. Romeo will then come to her tomb
and take her away. When the wedding party arrives to greet Juliet
next day they think she is dead. The Friar sends a colleague to warn
Romeo to come to the Capulet’s family monument to rescue his
sleeping wife but the message doesn’t get through and Romeo, hearing
instead that Juliet is dead, buys poison in Mantua.
He returns to Verona and goes to the tomb where he surprises and
kills the mourning Paris. Romeo takes the poison and dies just as
Juliet awakes from her drugged sleep. She learns what has happened
from Friar Lawrence but she refuses to leave the tomb and stabs herself
as the Friar returns with the Prince, the Capulets and Romeo’s father.
The deaths of their children lead the families to make peace, promising
to erect a monument in their memory.