Romeo and Juliet
Questions
The most common questions about Romeo and Juliet, answered from the play.
- What is the summary of Romeo and Juliet?Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare's play in which two young people of Verona, children of enemy families, the Montagues and the Capulets, fall in love...
- How does Romeo and Juliet end?Romeo and Juliet ends with the deaths of the two in the Capulet tomb and with the reconciliation of the families: Romeo drinks poison beside Juliet,...
- What is the theme of Romeo and Juliet?The central theme of Romeo and Juliet is the love that is born in the midst of a feud between families, and what that feud does to it. Around this,...
- Who is Romeo in Romeo and Juliet?Romeo is the son of Montague, who falls in love with Juliet at the Capulet ball, marries her in secret, kills Tybalt, is banished from Verona, and...
- Who is Juliet in Romeo and Juliet?Juliet is the only daughter of Capulet and Lady Capulet, not yet fourteen when the play begins. She loves Romeo, marries him in secret, and, to...
- Who is Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet?Friar Laurence is the Franciscan friar of Verona, confessor to Romeo and Juliet, who marries the two in secret, arranges the potion plan, and arrives...
- Who is Juliet's Nurse in Romeo and Juliet?The Nurse is the woman who nursed Juliet and has cared for her since babyhood, confidante of the secret marriage and messenger between the lovers. At...
- Who is Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet?Mercutio is Romeo's friend and kinsman of Prince Escalus, and the play does not place him in either of the two rival houses. He is the most mocking...
- Who is Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet?Tybalt is nephew to Lady Capulet, cousin to Juliet, and the house's duelist, and he calls Capulet "uncle." In Act III, scene 1, he kills Mercutio and...
- Who is Paris in Romeo and Juliet?Paris is the count who asks for Juliet's hand, a kinsman of Prince Escalus and of Mercutio, and the groom Capulet chooses for his daughter. He dies...
- Who is Capulet in Romeo and Juliet?Capulet is the head of the Capulet house, father of Juliet and uncle of Tybalt. The play shows him protecting his daughter's will in one scene and...
- Why do the Montagues and the Capulets fight in Romeo and Juliet?The play does not say what caused the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. The Prologue speaks only of an old enmity between two families of...
- What do "Wherefore art thou Romeo" and "What's in a name" mean?When Juliet says this, in the garden (Act II, scene 2), she is not looking for Romeo: the English word "wherefore" means why, not where. She asks why...
- How old is Juliet in Romeo and Juliet?Juliet is not yet fourteen when the play begins: according to the Nurse, she will turn fourteen on the eve of Lammas, the English festival of August...
- Why does Romeo kill himself in Romeo and Juliet?Romeo kills himself because he believes Juliet is dead. She only appeared dead, due to the friar's potion, but the letter that would have explained...