Act 1 Scene 1
Act 1 Scene 5
Romeo: ‘Out of her favour, where I am in love’
Romeo: ‘Beauty too rich for use, for earth
too dear’
Benvolio: ‘Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!’
Romeo: ‘Here’s much to do with hate but more
with love.
Romeo: ‘For I ne'er saw true beauty till this
night’
Romeo: ‘A choking gall, and a preserving
sweet’
Tybalt: ‘I’ll not endure him’.
Romeo: ‘ I am not here./ This is not Romeo.
He’s some other where.
Romeo: ‘(taking JULIET’s hand) If I profane
with my unworthiest hand /This holy shrine’
Juliet: ‘You kiss by th' book’
Romeo: ‘She will not stay the siege of loving
terms,’
Sonnet Structure Line 93-95
Romeo: ‘Ay, so I fear. The more is my unrest’
In Act 1 Scene 5 Romeo states that Juliet’s beauty is divine ‘for earth too dear’ This
shows how passionately Romeo falls in love with Juliet at first sight. He links her beauty
to wealth ‘rich’ and ‘dear’ suggesting that women at the time were described as
possessions and objectified. Later in the scene he describes Juliet as a ‘holy shrine’
again suggesting that she is divine. This shows less objectification of Juliet as the
religious imagery hints at the purity of his love as Shakespeare’s audience were
religious. Romeo swears that he has never seen true beauty till this night. This is
effective as it makes the audience think about his declaration of love for Rosaline. This
creates the impression that his love for Juliet is more intense and real this time, or
alternatively highlights Romeo as a fickle character who falls in love easily. The way in
which Shakespeare structures the dialogue between Romeo and Juliet into a shared
sonnet implies that they are an equal match. Rather than Romeo writing sonnets to
Juliet that are not responded to as Shakespeare shows he has done in the past with
Rosaline, they share a sonnet highlighting the balance of their emotions. In the scene
we see Tybalt declaring his hate for Romeo to Capulet. Shakespeare uses the hate to
contrast the declarations of love which shows the two extreme emotions that all the
later events of the play are based around. In contrast, Juliet is more reserved when she
states that Romeo kisses by the book which shows that she is satisfied with the reality
of Romeo and doesn’t need elevate her emotions. At the end of the scene Romeo
declares that his love for Juliet is ‘my unrest’ which foreshadows the later events in the
play and highlights the power of Romeo’s love as he ignores his own warning.
Furthermore it emphasises Romeo’s tendency to chose not to control his own
emotions but to blame external factors as he shows himself to be a victim through this
statement.
Act 3 Scene 1
Act 5 Scene 3
Romeo: ‘Courage, man; the hurt cannot be
much.’
Romeo: ‘Gorged with the dearest morsel of
the earth, /Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to
open/ And in despite I’ll cram thee with
more food!’
Mercutio: ‘They have made worms' meat of
me’
Romeo: ‘My very friend, hath got his mortal
hurt / In my behalf’
Benvolio: ‘ brave Mercutio's dead’
Romeo: ‘Mercutio's soul
Is but a little way above our heads,
Staying for thine to keep him company’
Romeo: ‘Either thou, or I, or both, must go
with him’
Romeo: ‘Death, that hath sucked the honey
of thy breath,/ Hath had no power yet upon
thy beauty.’
Romeo: ‘Oh, here / Will I set up my
everlasting rest,’
Romeo: ‘‘Come, bitter conduct, come,
unsavoury guide.’
Act 1 Scene 1
Benvolio: ‘I’ll know his grievance or be
much denied.
Benvolio: ‘Tell me in sadness, who is
that you love.’
Benvolio: ‘Be ruled by me. Forget to
think of her.’
Benvolio: ‘Examine other beauties.’
Benvolio: ‘I’ll pay that doctrine or else
die in debt.’
Act 3 Scene 1
Tybalt: ‘Mercutio, thou consort’st with
Romeo.’
Romeo: ‘Courage, man; the hurt cannot
be much.’
Mercutio: ‘They have made worms'
meat of me’
Mercutio: ‘ I was hurt under your arm.’
Romeo: ‘My very friend, hath got his
mortal hurt / In my behalf’
Benvolio: ‘ brave Mercutio's dead’
Act 3 Scene 1
Act 3 Scene 5
Mercutio: ‘A plague o' both your houses!’
Romeo: give me thy hand, /One writ with
me in sour misfortune’s book
Romeo: ‘This day's black fate on more days
doth depend/ This but begins the woe,
others must end.’
Romeo: ‘fire-eyed fury be my conduct now’
Romeo: ‘Either thou, or I, or both, must go
with him’
Benvolio: Stand not amazed: the prince will
doom thee death ‘
Romeo: ‘I am fortune's fool!’
Romeo: ‘Thy drugs are quick.’
Prince: ‘Their course of love, the tidings
of her death.’
Prince: ‘See what a scourge is laid upon
your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys
with love!’
Prince: ‘Some shall be pardoned, and
some punishèd.’
Act 3 Scene 5
Lady Capulet: ‘thou weep’st not so much for
his death/ As that the villain lives which
slaughtered him’.
Lady Montague: ‘Where is Romeo? Saw you
him today? /Right glad I am he was not at this
fray.
Juliet: ‘He shall not make me there a joyful
bride./I wonder at this haste, that I must wed’
Montague: ‘Away from light steals home my
heavy son’
Lady Capulet: ‘I would the fool were married to Montague: ‘Black and portentous must this
her grave!’
humor prove / Unless good counsel may the
cause remove.
Capulet: ‘Unworthy as she is, that we have
wrought /So worthy a gentleman to be her
Montague: ‘I neither know it nor can learn of
bride?’
him.’
Capulet: ‘An you be mine, I’ll give you to my
friend/An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in
the streets’
Lady Capulet: ‘Do as thou wilt, for I have done
with thee’
Montague: ‘As is the bud bit with an envious
worm/ Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to
the air’
Montague: ‘We would as willingly give cure as
know.’
Act 3 Scene 4
Capulet: ‘Things have fall'n out, sir, so
unluckily, /That we have had no time to
move our daughter.
Paris: ‘These times of woe afford no time
to woo.’
Romeo: ‘There is no world without Verona
walls/ But purgatory, torture, hell itself.’
Romeo: ‘Heaven is here,/ Where Juliet
lives’
Lady Capulet: ‘I will, and know her mind
early tomorrow.’
Romeo: ‘every unworthy thing,
Live here in heaven and may look on her,
But Romeo may not.’
Capulet: ‘ mark you me, on Wednesday
next’
Romeo: ‘ steal immortal blessing from her
lips’
Capulet: ‘Monday! Ha, ha. Well,
Wednesday is too soon,
O' Thursday let it be.’
Friar: ‘A pack of blessings light upon thy
back,’
Paris: ‘ I would that Thursday were
tomorrow.’
Act 1 Scene 1
Sampson: ‘Draw, if you be men’
Benvolio: ‘Part, fools! Put up your swords.
You know not what you do.’
Tybalt: ‘What, art thou drawn among
these heartless hinds?’
Benvolio: ‘I do but keep the peace. Put up
thy sword,’
Tybalt: ‘What, drawn, and talk of peace? I
hate the word/ As I hate hell, all
Montagues, and thee.’
Act 3 Scene 1
Tybalt: ‘Boy, this shall not excuse the
injuries/That thou hast done me.
Therefore turn and draw.’
Mercutio: ‘O calm, dishonourable, vile
submission!’
Romeo: ‘Draw, Benvolio. Beat down their
weapons.’
Romeo: ‘O sweet Juliet/ Thy beauty hath
made me effeminate /And in my temper
soften'd valour's steel!’
Romeo: ‘fire-eyed fury be my conduct
now’
Act 3 Scene 5
Act 1 Scene 1
Juliet: ‘He shall not make me there a joyful
bride./I wonder at this haste, that I must wed’
Sampson: ‘therefore women, being the
weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the wall.’
Lady Capulet: ‘I would the fool were married
to her grave!’
Nurse: ‘You are to blame, my lord, to rate her
so’…..Capulet: ‘Hold your tongue’
Capulet: ‘Unworthy as she is, that we have
wrought /So worthy a gentleman to be her
bride?’
Capulet: ‘An you be mine, I’ll give you to my
friend/An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in
the streets’
Lady Capulet: ‘Do as thou wilt, for I have done
with thee’
Sampson: ‘When I have fought with the
men, I will be civil with the maids. I will cut
off their heads.’
Sampson: ‘the heads of the maids, or their
maidenheads/ Take it in what sense thou
wilt
Sampson:’ they shall feel while I am able
to stand, and / ’tis known I am a pretty
piece of flesh’
Act 3 Scene 1
Act 1 Scene 1
Mercutio: ‘O calm, dishonourable, vile
submission!’
Gregory: ‘The quarrel is between our
masters and us their men.’
Romeo: ‘Courage, man; the hurt cannot be
much.’
Sampson: ‘ I will bite my thumb at them,
which is a disgrace to them, if they bear
it.’
Romeo: ‘my reputation stain'd’
Sampson: ‘Draw, if you be men’
Romeo: ‘O sweet Juliet/ Thy beauty hath
made me effeminate /And in my temper
soften'd valour's steel!’
Benvolio: ‘ brave Mercutio's dead’
Romeo: ‘fire-eyed fury be my conduct
now’
Tybalt: ‘What, art thou drawn among
these heartless hinds?’
Capulet: ‘What noise is this? Give me my
long sword, ho!’