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Romeo and
Juliet
Romeo
and
Juliet
Characters
The Families
Romeo's
Family- The Montagues
Romeo's Mother-
Romeo's
Lady
Montague
Father - Lord_Montague
Benvolio- Romeo's cousin
Juliet's
Family- The Capulets
Juliet'sFather-
Lord_Capulet
Juliet's Mother-Lady Capulet
Tybalt -
Juliet's cousin
Other Characters
Mercutio - Romeo's
The
Nurse -
friend
Juliet's
Prince Escalus - the
Sir
Friar
Paris
- The
nurse
and servant
Prince of Verona
man
Juliet's parents want her to
Lawrence - a priest/counselor
marry
A long time ago, in the country of Italy , there was a
Verona.
Two
big
families were always fighting.
city
called
A handsome boy named Romeo
lived in the Montague
family.
A pretty girl named
Juliet
lived in the Capulet
family.
Juliet's
parents had a costume
Romeo and
Juliet
danced and
party
and Romeo went.
talked.
They
liked each other
and
later
they
kissed.
After the
Juliet
party
saw
Romeo waited outside of
Romeo.
Juliet's window.
They
both
said
they
loved each other.
Romeo talked to his friend the
The
priest
priest
named Friar Lawrence.
said that he would help Romeo
and
Juliet
be together.
Romeo and
Juliet
got married but they kept it a
secret.
They
Juliet's
knew that their
families
parents wanted her to
would be
marry
mad.
a different man named Sir Paris.
Later,
Romeo gets in a
fight
with
Juliet's
cousin named
Tybalt.
Romeo does
not
want
to
fight
so Tybalt
fights
Mercutio
with
Romeo's
dies.
Then Romeo
kills
Tybalt.
friend
Mercutio.
The
Prince
Romeo and
says
Juliet
Romeo has to
are
very
sad.
leave
the
city
of Verona.
They
make
a plan to
runaway and be together.
Juliet
takes
Juliet's
her in the
a drug that
family
funeral
makes
thinks
room.
her
she is
very
dead
sick.
so they
put
Juliet
was
not
Romeo was supposed to
dead.
meet
her at the
would wake up so they could runaway together.
funeral
room and she
But Romeo thinks
Romeo
is so
that
upset
Juliet
that he
is
dead.
wants to
die
too.
Romeo
He
drinks
buys
the
some
poison and
poison.
dies
fast.
Juliet
wakes
Juliet is very
Juliet
kills
up and she
sad
and
sees
Romeo is
dead
(for real).
upset.
herself with Romeo's knife and
she
dies
too.
So
Romeo and
Juliet
both
die.
It is very
They
that
sad
for both the Capulet and Montague families.
decide to learn
no
how
one else has to
to get
die.
along
so
THE
END