Let’s pick sides!
 Capulets:
 Montagues
 Lord Capulet – wealthy
 Lord Montague –
nobleman, quicktempered
 Lady Capulet – his wife,
vengeful, cold and
distant to daughter
wealthy nobleman,
doesn’t appear much
 Lady Montague – his
wife, only says one line
 Juliet – daughter of Lord and Lady Capulet, she is 13
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years old
Tybalt – Lady Capulet’s nephew, Juliet’s cousin, very
violent and hot-tempered
Nurse – Servant who has cared for Juliet since infancy,
she loves to talk and reminisce
Peter – The Nurse’s servant, very immature
Sampson – Servant
Gregory – Servant
Old Man – Elderly relative of the family
 Romeo – son of Lord and Lady Montague, he is about
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Benvolio – Lord Montague’s nephew, Romeo’s cousin
and friend, calm, courteous, and gentle
Balthasar – Romeo’s servant
Abram – a servant
Mercutio – relative of the Prince and suitor to Juliet,
rude, talkative, quick-tempered, and teases Romeo
 Friar Lawrence – A Franciscan Friar, friend of both
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Romeo and Juliet
Prince Escalus – Prince of Verona, concerned about
maintaining the peace at all costs
Friar John – Another Franciscan Friar, works under
Friar Lawrence
The Apothecary – He sells different kinds of medicines
to different kinds of people.
Paris – Relative of the Prince who is courting Juliet,
polite and handsome
 Family Crests, or Coats of Arms, date to the early
Middle Ages because armor was making it difficult to
tell people apart.
 They decided to paint something on their honor to
help with this
 They were important in battle, but also worked kind of
like team uniforms in tournaments
 Over time, shield emblem designs became enduring
symbols of their owners, and of their owners’ families
 It started to become fashionable to have a ‘coat of
arms’, so people hired artists to design them
 They started putting them on tunics, saddle blankets,
banners, tapestries, sculptures, architectural features,
signs, advertisements, coins, jewelry, and stamps.
 It became a thing for every one to do, not just soldiers
 It also helped people recognize each other’s marks
when few people could read or write.
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