Romeo and Juliet
1
Juliet wakes up and finds Romeo’s dead body. She stabs herself and dies.
2
Romeo arranges the wedding with Friar Lawrence.
3
Romeo and Juliet are married by Friar Lawrence.
4
Friar Lawrence gives Juliet a potion, which will make her appear to be dead for forty-two hours. The
friar says that once she is laid in the family tomb, he will send word to Romeo to come and take her
away to Mantua.
5
At the party Romeo meets Juliet, the Capulets' thirteen year old daughter. They dance together and fall
in love - not knowing each other's identity.
6
Juliet sends her nurse to meet Romeo. She returns with the message that they will be married later
that day by Friar Lawrence.
7
Romeo buys poison and gallops back to Verona. He finds Juliet lying in the tomb as if dead. He cannot
live without her. He drinks the poison and dies.
8
Romeo and Juliet are married, and that same morning Romeo’s friend Mercutio, fights with Juliet’s
cousin Tybalt, and is killed by him.
9
The message from Friar Lawrence is delayed. Romeo hears from another source that Juliet is dead.
10
Two of the richest and most important families in Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets, are
engaged in a deadly feud. No-one can remember how it started, but it involves everyone, from the
servants to the most distant relatives.
11
Because Tybalt has killed Mercutio; Romeo fights and kills Tybalt. Romeo is banished from Verona - on
pain of death.
12
Romeo and Juliet meet secretly in the Capulets' orchard after the party. Romeo proposes to Juliet. He
says that he will make the arrangements for the wedding the next day.
13
They both part at the party; they then discover each other's identity.
14
In the meantime, Juliet’s parents have arranged for her to marry Count Paris, a relative of Prince
Escales, the ruler of Verona.
15
Juliet’s parents order her to prepare for her wedding to Paris in three days time. In despair she asks
Friar Lawrence for help.
16
One day Romeo Montague finds out there is to be a masked ball that evening at the Capulet’s house.
He decides to gatecrash the party in the hope of seeing the girl he loves from a distance - Rosaline.
17
Juliet swallows the potion the Friar has given her. Her parents think she is dead and she is placed in
the family tomb.
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