ELIZABETHAN THEATRE THE TOMB SCENE ROMEO AND JULIET
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Enter FIRST & THIRD WATCHMAN, with
the Page of PARIS into the Capulet Tomb.
PAGE
This is the place; there, where the torch
doth burn.
FIRST WATCHMAN
The ground is bloody; search about the
churchyard! Go, some of you, whoe’er you
find attach. Pitiful sight! here lies the
county slain,
THIRD WATCHMAN
And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly
dead, Who here hath lain these two days
buried.
FIRST WATCHMAN
Go! Tell the prince: run to the Capulets:
Raise up the Montagues!
SECOND WATCHMAN enters with
BALTHASAR
What does the environment of a tomb
look like? How many entrances are
there?
How does the 1st Watchman know the
ground is bloody?
How does the 3rd Watchman know that
Juliet is “warm and newly dead”? Why is
that strange?
Who is the 1st Watchman talking to and
what do they do?
SECOND WATCHMAN
Here’s Romeo’s man; we found him in the
churchyard
BALTHAZAR
Let me go!
FIRST WATCHMAN
Hold him in safety, till the prince come
hither.
THIRD WATCHMAN enters with FRIAR
What’s happening to make Balthazar
say this?
LAURENCE
THIRD WATCHMAN
Here is a friar, that trembles, sighs and
weeps: We took this mattock and this
spade from him,
Based on what the 3rd Watch is saying,
how should the Friar be acting when he
enters?
FIRST WATCHMAN
A great suspicion: stay the friar too
The PRINCE enters
PRINCE
What misadventure is so early up, That
calls our person from our morning’s rest?
How does everyone react when the
Prince enters?
CAPULET, LADY CAPULET enter
What time of day is it?
CAPULET
What should it be, that they so shriek
abroad?
LADY CAPULET
The people in the street cry Romeo, Some
Juliet, and some Paris; and all run, With
open outcry toward our monument.
PRINCE
What fear is this which startles in our
ears?
FIRST WATCHMAN
Sovereign, here lies the County Paris
slain; And Romeo dead; and Juliet, dead
before, Warm and new killed.
PRINCE
Search, seek, and know how this foul
murder comes.
FIRST WATCHMAN
Here is a friar, and slaughter’d Romeo’s
man; With instruments upon them, fit to
open These dead men’s tombs.
What does it sound like outside the
tomb? How do Lord and Lady Capulet
feel right now and how does it affect the
way they speak?
What emotion is the Prince feeling
when he says this and how does it affect
the way he says it?
CAPULET
O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter
bleeds! This dagger hath mistaken And it
mis-sheathed in my daughter’s bosom!
Why did the Capulets just notice Juliet?
When do they notice her (before or after
they say the line)? What’s a modern
equivalent for “O heavens!”?
LADY CAPULET
O me! this sight of death is as a bell, That
warns my old age to a sepulchre.
What is a sepulchre?
MONTAGUE enters
PRINCE
Come, Montague; for thou art early up,
To see thy son and heir more early down.
MONTAGUE
Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night;
Grief of my son’s exile hath stopp’d her
breath: What further woe conspires
against mine age?
PRINCE
Look, and thou shalt see.
MONTAGUE
O thou untaught! what manners is in
this? To press before thy father to a
grave?
Again, a reference to the time of day.
What time of day is it?
What just happened that Montague is
telling the Prince about? How do you
think that affects the way he enters and
acts?
How does Montague know where to
look when the Prince says “Look. . .”?
PRINCE
Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,
And let mischance be slave to patience.
Bring forth the parties of suspicion.
Look at the Prince’s next line. Does that
affect the way Montague delivers this
Line?
FRIAR LAURENCE
I am the greatest, able to do least, Yet
most suspected, as the time and place
Doth make against me of this direful
murder; And here I stand, both to
impeach and purge, Myself condemned
and myself excused.
How do you think the Friar is feeling?
How does that affect the way he acts and
speaks? Does the fact that he’s a holy
man affect the way that the Watch treat
him?
PRINCE
Then say at once what thou dost know in
this.