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Romeo and Juliet Quotes
AO3: Believed to have been written in the Elizabethan era between 1591 and 1595; the
plot is based on an Italian tale translated into verse as The Tragical History as Romeus and
Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1563
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(L5) From forth the fatal loin of these two foes a pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life
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(S1-L58) Benvolio: Part fools! Put up your swords; you know not what you do
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(S1-L90) Prince: If you ever disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of peace
(S1-L103) Benvolio: The fiery Tybalt
(S1-L110) Lady Montague: O where is Romeo? Saw you him to-day? Right glad I am he was
not at this fray
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(S1-L170) Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love
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AO3: The Elizabethan family life for women was dominated by the men in the family
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They were subservient to the men in the
family and were expected to obey them in all aspects of their life
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Marriages were arranged to suit the family, Elizabethan
women were expected to marry to increase the wealth and position of the family and then
to produce children - preferably male heirs
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(S2-L8) Capulet: My child is yet a stranger in this world;
(S2-L10) Let two more summers wither in their pride,
(S2-L16) But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart
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What is your will?
(S3-L18) Nurse: Come Lammas-eve at night she shall be fourteen
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These associations with youth plenty and ripening
grain we also appropriate for Juliet who’s at “a pretty age”… and the reaper arrives early for
her
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(S3-L96) Nurse: No less! Nay, bigger; women grow by men
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(S4-L15) Romeo: With nimble soles: I have a soul of lead so stakes me the ground I cannot
move
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(S5-L43) Romeo: O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
(S5-L45) As a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear;
(S5-L75) Tybalt: I’ll not endure him
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(S5-L117) Romeo: Is she a Capulet? O dear account! My life is my foe’s debt
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Prodigious = adjective
1) Remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree
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AO3: When Mary died and her sister Elizabeth succeeded to the throne, the religion of
England changed to the Protestant faith
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