Script

Capulet's orchard.

Enter ROMEO and JULIET above, at the balcony


Kate: JULIET  
Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear;
Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree:
Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.


Chan: ROMEO
It was the lark, the herald of the morn,
No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east:
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.


Kate:JULIET
Yon light is not day-light, I know it, I:
It is some meteor that the sun exhales,
To be to thee this night a torch-bearer,
And light thee on thy way to Mantua:
Therefore stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone.


Chan: ROMEO
Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death;
I am content, so thou wilt have it so.
I'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye,
'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow;
Nor that is not the lark, whose notes do beat
The vaulty heaven so high above our heads:
I have more care to stay than will to go:
Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so.
How is't, my soul? let's talk; it is not day.


Kate:JULIET
It is, it is: hie hence, be gone, away!
Some say the lark makes sweet division;
Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes,
O, now be gone; more light and light it grows.

Chan: ROMEO
More light and light; more dark and dark our woes!

Kate:JULIET
Then, window, let day in, and let life out.

Chan: ROMEO
Farewell, farewell! one kiss, and I'll descend.
(He goeth down)

Kate:JULIET
Art thou gone so? love, lord, ay, husband, friend!
Ere I again behold my Romeo!

Chan: ROMEO
Farewell!
I will omit no opportunity
That may convey my greetings, love, to thee.

Kate:JULIET
O think'st thou we shall ever meet again?

Chan: ROMEO
I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve
For sweet discourses in our time to come.

Kate:JULIET
O God, I have an ill-divining soul!
Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb:
Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale.

Chan: ROMEO
And trust me, love, in my eye so do you:
Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu!
Exit

Kate:JULIET
O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle:
If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him.
That is renown'd for faith? Be fickle, fortune;
For then, I hope, thou wilt not keep him long,
But send him back.



Lines:--
Juliet 27
Romeo 24



Outfit ideas for Kat: Fluffy skirt that's has splashes of color to show youth with a top and sweater.
Romeo: no idea yet

Props: see what props we have

Take home quiz Act 5 and 4

A)  Act 4 is all Juliet. She considers options, defies her parents, gets advice, goes against the advice of one trusted counselor and agrees to trust a more unknown one, makes a decision, faces real fears, chooses to make sacrifices, chances death, takes an unknown potion, embarks on an adventure that risks exile or worse. Discuss her character and personality. What does this act reveal about her that we didn't know before? How has her character changed since we first met her in act one? Be specific. Also, while Juliet is going through all of this, what is Romeo doing? How are their characters contrasted by this juxtaposition? What is Shakespeare perhaps suggesting about gender in this act and how does that also contrast from how the gendered "normal" world was presented earlier in the play?
- Juliet was rather a young and bright woman who was also very childish. This act proves to me just how childish she truly is. I mean she thinks she is in love. She goes against her family and against one trusted counselor and chooses to make all the wrong decisions. She also did all of this for one boy she met possibly once and suddenly fell in love with. It reveals to me just how madly in love she fell because nobody smart enough would do something so ridiculous, but love has its way of manipulating the mind and I believe that is exactly what has happened. I think that she has changed a lot. For example in act one she was innocent and playful. As the scenes went on she became more and more independent and started making very rash decisions by herself. During this Romeo is being cast away, banished from his very home. He is trying to grasp a hold of his own life and care about juliet but it seems as if juliet cares more about romeo at times than herself. The mens are the brave ones, the stronger ones and the ones who get to fight, The women just follow them around and support the men even if they do not agree.

B) When the nurse finds Juliet in Act 4, she appears to be dead. We assume that she isn't but what if she were? Who would you blame as responsible for Juliet's death and why? Back up your argument with specific details.
- If juliet was actually dead i would blame her. She is the one who decided to drink it in the first place. She even had doubts herself because she did not know whether or not it was safe to drink and yet she drank it anyways. For example in the text it stated, “What if it be a poison which the friar Subtly hath minist’red to have me dead, Lest in this marriage he should be dishonor’d Because he married me before to Romeo? I fear it is, and yet methinks it should not, For he hath still been tried a holy man” (Act 4 Scene 3). Right there you can clearly see that she is debating on whether or not to take it. She feels like maybe Friar Lawrence just wants to kill her so he does not get into trouble for what he has done.Yet, she takes the potion anyways not knowing if it would kill her or actually just make her sleep. So honestly if she took it and actually did die, she is to blame.

F) Choose either Romeo or Juliet and analyze their portrayal in the film. What characteristics are highlighted and how? Be specific? Is this faithful to the original play? Why or why not?
- Romeo is rather this kid who is kept to himself distant and young. His friends Benvolio and Mercutio are the other main characters that are highlighted. Romeo's parents okay show up once in the film that I know of but never makes another appearance. Mercutio is his best friend who is willing to fight for Romeo at all cost and even ends up getting himself killed. Benvolio is Romeo’s cousin and will also do anything to protect Romeo. I think they both just want Romeo happy. I believe that it is faithful to the play. I mean they joke around a lot more in the film than in the play. I mean the play is a tragedy and the film was more of a comedic tragedy. Other than that I thought it lived up to the play pretty well. Another thing is that the film cuts from scene to scene very fast while the book gives you more detail than the film can.

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Died: February 2, 1997, Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, CA

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Capulet's orchard.

Enter ROMEO and JULIET above, at the balcony


JULIET
Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear;
Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree:
Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.


ROMEO
It was the lark, the herald of the morn,
No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east:
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.


JULIET
Yon light is not day-light, I know it, I:
It is some meteor that the sun exhales,
To be to thee this night a torch-bearer,
And light thee on thy way to Mantua:
Therefore stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone.


ROMEO
Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death;
I am content, so thou wilt have it so.
I'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye,
'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow;
Nor that is not the lark, whose notes do beat
The vaulty heaven so high above our heads:
I have more care to stay than will to go:
Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so.
How is't, my soul? let's talk; it is not day.


JULIET
It is, it is: hie hence, be gone, away!
Some say the lark makes sweet division;
Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes,
O, now be gone; more light and light it grows.


ROMEO
More light and light; more dark and dark our woes!

JULIET
Then, window, let day in, and let life out.


ROMEO
Farewell, farewell! one kiss, and I'll descend.
(He goeth down)

JULIET
Art thou gone so? love, lord, ay, husband, friend!
Ere I again behold my Romeo!

ROMEO
Farewell!
I will omit no opportunity
That may convey my greetings, love, to thee.

JULIET
O think'st thou we shall ever meet again?

ROMEO
I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve
For sweet discourses in our time to come.

JULIET
O God, I have an ill-divining soul!
Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb:
Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale.

ROMEO
And trust me, love, in my eye so do you:
Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu!
Exit

JULIET
O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle:
If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him.
That is renown'd for faith? Be fickle, fortune;
For then, I hope, thou wilt not keep him long,
But send him back.

Lines:--
Juliet 27
Romeo 24

Reading notes Act 4and5

Act 4 Scene 1

FRIAR LAWRENCE
“ You say you do not know the lady’s mind?
Uneven is the course, I like it not.”
(she gave no consent and hasn't made the decision therefore he does not like the idea.)

PARIS
“Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt’s death,
And therefore have I little talk’d of love,
Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous
That she do give her sorrow so much sway;
And in his wisdom hastes our marriage,
To stop the inundation of her tears,
(saying her father rushed their marriage because he is afraid she is crying too much for Tybalt's death and wishes for her to be most happy.)

“JULIET
O, shut the door, and when thou hast done so,
Come weep with me, past hope, past cure, past help”
( shut the door and let me cry for there is nothing I can do now and I have nobody to help me)

FRIAR LAWANCE
“Go home, be merry, give consent
To marry Paris. We’n’sday is tomorrow;
Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone,
Let not the nurse lie with thee in thy chamber.
Take thou this vial, being then in bed,
And this distilling liquor drink thou off,
When presently through all thy veins shall run
A cold and drowsy humor; for no pulse
Shall keep his native progress, but surcease;
No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest;
The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
To wanny ashes, thy eyes’ windows fall,”
(go home act happy and give consent to marry Paris. Let nobody in your room Wednesday evening and drink this liquid. It will put you In a deep sleep buy make it seem like ur dead. No pulse veins cold no breath and all color will fade from your body)

JULIET
“Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear”
(wants the liquid very bad)


Act 4 Scene 2

CAPULET
“Well, he may chance to do some good on her.
A peevish self-will’d harlotry it is.”
( talking about friar Lawrence.)

Act 4 scene 3

LADY CAPULET
“What, are you busy, ho? Need you my help?”


JULIET
“No, madam, we have cull’d such necessaries
As are behoofeful for our state tomorrow.
So please you, let me now be left alone,
And let the nurse this night sit up with you,
For I am sure you have your hands full all,
In this so sudden business.”


LADY CAPULET
                        “Good night.
Get thee to bed and rest, for thou hast need.”
(you can see the rocky relationship between mother and daughter here.)


JULIET
“What if it be a poison which the friar
Subtly hath minist’red to have me dead,
Lest in this marriage he should be dishonor’d
Because he married me before to Romeo?
I fear it is, and yet methinks it should not,
For he hath still been tried a holy man.
How if, when I am laid into the tomb,
I wake before the time that Romeo
Come to redeem me? There’s a fearful point!
Shall I not then be stifled in the vault,
To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,
And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?”
(having second thoughts. Does not know if Friar is trying to kill her for what he has done or if he is actually trying to help her)


“LADY CAPULET
O me, O me, my child, my only life!
Revive, look up, or I will die with thee!
Help, help! Call help. ”
(nurse originally tried to wake Juliet. You can see here how her mother is very upset. Juliet washer only daughter and she chose to ignore Juliet.)

NURSE
“O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!
Most lamentable day, most woeful day
That ever, ever, I did yet behold!
O day, O day, O day, O hateful day!
Never was seen so black a day as this.
O woeful day, O woeful day!”
(you can see here that the Nurse is saying more than Juliet's own mother)

Act 5 Scene 1
ROMEO
“Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight.
Let’s see for means. O mischief, thou art swift
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!”
(Romeo thinks Juliet is dead and now is going to kill himself so he can be with her)


ROMEO
“Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?
O, what more favor can I do to thee,
Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
To sunder his that was thine enemy?
Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet,
Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe
That unsubstantial Death is amorous,
And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
For fear of that, I still will stay with thee,
And never from this palace of dim night
Depart again. Here, here will I remain
With worms that are thy chambermaids; O, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavory guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
Here’s to my love”
(Romeo killed Tybalt, Paris… And with one last kiss, he drinks the poison and dies)

FRIAR LAWRENCE
“Romeo, O, pale! Who else? What, Paris too?
And steep’d in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour
Is guilty of this lamentable chance!
The lady stirs.”


JULIET
“O comfortable friar! Where is my lord?
I do remember well where I should be,
And there I am. Where is my Romeo?”
( Friar sees that Romeo drank poison and Juliet rises and sees what has happened and takes Romeo's dagger and stabs herself and lies dead next to him)

“CAPULET
O brother Montague, give me thy hand.
This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more
Can I demand.

MONTAGUE
                But I can give thee more,
For I will raise her statue in pure gold,
That whiles Verona by that name is known,
There shall no figure at such rate be set
As that of true and faithful Juliet.

CAPULET
As rich shall Romeo’s by his lady’s lie,
Poor sacrifices of our enmity!

PRINCE
A glooming peace this morning with it brings,
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head.
Go hence to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
 (after everything they decide that there will be no more fighting and no more feud. It took both their people to die just for them to come together.)