Free romeo and juliet movie scripts pdf
Up to this point, this play could be a comedy just as easily as it is a tragedy. Romeo is to meet Juliet when she wakes up, and they can then flee to Mantua - their families none the wiser.
Friar Laurence sends a note to Romeo explaining the plan. The family will take her to their crypt, pending the funeral. This potion, not uncommon in Shakespearean works, will make her appear dead for a time, and then she’ll wake up perfectly fine. Juliet is to go home, apologize to her father for not jumping on board the marriage train with the boy that her father so dearly loves (but to do so without sarcasm,) and then before going to sleep she will take a potion. Juliet goes to see Friar Laurence, who is a botanical mad scientist on the side. However, she’s really worried about her husband Romeo (who, of course, none of the family knows she’s married to.) When it seems like Juliet’s sadness for Tybalt has gone on long enough, her father sets a post-haste wedding date between Juliet and County Paris (the young man that Capulet favors for his daughter.) This is a problem for Juliet because: a.) she’s already married and, b.) she deeply loves Romeo and finds Paris sort of Meh! She gets into a tiff with her father who thinks she’s an ungrateful whelp. When her family informs Juliet that Tybalt has been slain by Romeo, they think she is broken up about her kinsman’s death. Then Lady Capulet plots to have a hit put out on Romeo, but events outpace her plot.) After meeting with Friar Laurence, Romeo flees to Mantua. (Lady Capulet petitions the Prince for Romeo to be executed but the Prince won’t go for it, figuring Tybalt got what was coming to him for picking a fight and stabbing Mercutio. After killing Tybalt, Romeo flees the scene, later to find out he’s been banished from Verona upon threat of death. While Romeo is generally more a lover than a fighter, he duels and kills Tybalt immediately after Mercutio’s death. The Prince of Verona has had it up to his neck with the bickering. As Mercutio dies, he famously wishes a “plague on both houses” (meaning Tybalt’s Capulets and Romeo’s Montagues.) Mercutio is but one of many who are completely fed up with the feud between these two families. When Romeo comes on the scene, he steps into the middle of the fray to separate the men, and Tybalt finds an opening to thrust into Mercutio. Tybalt finds Romeo’s friend (Mercutio) and his kinsman (Benvolio,) and Mercutio ends up crossing blades Tybalt. But the next day Tybalt goes out intent on fighting. Capulet (Juliet’s father) made him chill out because he didn’t want blood spilled during his party. Tybalt had recognized Romeo at the party, and wanted to fight him then, but Mr. Soon after the wedding, Tybalt (Juliet’s hot-headed kinsman) goes out looking for Romeo. They have to keep the marriage secret because it would get back to the heads of the feuding households immediately. However, no one other than the priest who married them, Friar Laurence, knows of the wedding. After an opening that establishes the enmity between the Montagues and Capulets, Romeo and Juliet fall for each other fast and hard, and with lightening speed have wed and consummated the marriage. In short, they would be a marriageable couple if their families didn’t hate each other. Otherwise, the couple meets all requirements for wooing to commence: they each have feelings for the other, and they are of similar class status. The problem is that he meets Juliet by crashing her father’s party while wearing a disguise (a disguise that ultimately doesn’t fool the right people,) and the reason Romeo needs a disguise is because Romeo’s father and Juliet’s father are archenemies. unrequited love, love triangles, or class differences.
The central challenge of this couple’s love affair isn’t the usual fare of Shakespeare’s works – e.g. This is one of Shakespeare’s most famous works, if not the most famous love story in the history of love stories.