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Romeo and Juliet
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Subject:
English
Age groups:
12–14, 15–16
Topic:
Romeo and Juliet
Licence information | This resource is free to use for educational purposes. ©British Council 2015
Source | This resource was originally developed by Claudine Field and Mary Ann Apcar from Stoke
Newington School in Hackney for the Collaborative Learning Project, and piloted in schools with help
from Sabrina Broadbent at the English and Media Centre, and has been adapted by EAL Nexus.
Images taken from Self-Made Hero’s Manga Shakespeare series.
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Who
Romeo
Benvolio
Juliet
Lord
Capulet
Romeo
Juliet
Lord
Capulet
Mercutio
Quote
What the quote means
O, she doth teach the torches
to burn bright!
She is so beautiful that she shines
more than the torches lighting the
room.
I pray thee good Mercutio let’s
retire
The day is hot, the Capulets
abroad,
And if we meet, we shall not
‘scape a brawl
Please, Mercutio, let’s go home! It’s a
very hot day, the Capulets are out
and about and if we meet them there
will be a fight.
I’ll to the Friar to know his
remedy.
If all else fail, myself have
power to die.
I’ll go and ask Friar Lawrence’s
advice. If he can’t help me I will kill
myself.
And you be mine, I’ll give you
to my friend
And you be not, hang, beg,
starve, die in the streets.
If you do what I say, I’ll arrange your
marriage with my friend. If you don’t,
you must go away and I don’t care if
you have to beg or if you starve or die
in the streets.
O, I am fortune’s fool!
I am so unlucky!
(Fortune is laughing at me)
’Tis but thy name that is mine
enemy.
Thou art thyself, though not a
Montague.
The only problem is your name. You
would still be the same person if you
were not a Montague.
Earth hath swallowed all my
hopes but she;
She is the hopeful lady of my
earth,
My other children have all died. She
is my only child and the most
precious thing in my life.
Tybalt, you ratcatcher, will you
walk?
Tybalt – are you walking away from a
fight? (Making fun of Tybalt’s name
by saying it’s a bit like ‘Tibbles’ which
is a cat’s name)
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The Nurse
Friar
Lawrence
Tybalt
Benvolio
The Nurse
Romeo
Tybalt
I think it best you married with
the County.
O he’s a lovely gentleman.
I advise you to marry Count Paris –
he’s a very nice man
For this alliance may so happy
prove,
To turn your households’
rancour to pure love.
Well, peace be with you Sir,
here comes my man.
This marriage may be a way of ending
the feud between your families and
building a good relationship.
Either withdraw unto some
private place,
Or reason coldly of your
grievances,
Or else depart.
You should go somewhere private
and discuss things calmly, or go
home.
Then hie you hence to Friar
Lawrence’s cell.
There stays a husband to make
you a wife.
Her I love now
Doth grace for grace and love
for love allow.
Hurry up and go to Friar Lawrence’s
cell. Your future husband is waiting
there to marry you.
I’m not going to fight you, sir. Here
comes the man I want to fight.
The woman I love now is in love with
me as well.
I am going to kill him, for the sake of
Now by the stock and honour
my family’s honour.
of my kin
To strike him dead I hold it not a
sin.
O, swear not by the moon,
th’inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her
circle orb
Don’t swear how much you love me
by the moon. The moon changes all
the time and your love might change
as well.
The Nurse
I tell you, he that can lay hold
of her
Shall have the chinks.
I can tell you that the man who
marries her will be very rich (she is
the daughter of a very rich man).
Mercutio
A plague on both your houses!
They have made worms’ meat
of me.
I curse both your families. Your
quarrel has been the cause of my
death (worms will eat my body).
Juliet
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If ever you disturb our streets
again
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of
the peace.
If any of you fight in the street again
you will be executed.
O, serpent heart, hid with a
flow’ring face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a
cave?
Wisely and slow. They stumble
that run fast.
Oh what an evil heart hidden inside
such a beautiful body – like a dragon
hiding inside a beautiful cave!
Romeo
There is no world without
Verona’s walls,
But purgatory, torture, hell itself.
Being anywhere in the world except
Verona is like being tortured or being
in hell.
Friar
Lawrence
Go get thee to thy love, as was
decreed,
Ascend her chamber, hence
and comfort her.
Go and find your wife, as you’d
arranged. Climb up to her bedroom
and comfort her.
Prince
Escalus
See what a scourge is laid
upon your hate
That heaven finds means to kill
your joy with love.
God has punished you for your feud,
by sending this love to kill your
children.
Prince
Escalus
Juliet
Friar
Lawrence
Don’t rush! People who run too fast
often fall over.
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