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Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
Act II summary
Name___Zac____Hammond_____________
Prologue:
Now that _______Romeo__________ is in love with _____Juliet_______, he has forgotten his old
love, Rosaline. However, because the two lovers are from enemy families, he does not have
access to her, and she does not have the means to __________see__________ him anywhere.
Scene 1:
Romeo’s friends search for him, but he leaps over an orchard ______Wall________. The friends
try to get Romeo to reveal his hiding place by saying rude things about
________Rosaline____________, but he is not in love with her any more, so it does not work.
Scene 2:
Scene 3:
Juliet is impatient because the nurse has been gone __________3__________ hours. The Nurse
returns, but tells Juliet that she is too out of _____breath__________ to deliver the message
right away. Then she says her _________Head________ and ______Bones______________ hurt.
Then she asks where Juliet’s _________Mother___________ is. Finally, as Juliet becomes frantic,
the Nurse gives her the news that she will become a bride. Meanwhile, the Nurse will fetch a
_______ladder_____________ so Romeo can climb to Juliet’s balcony for the honeymoon.
Scene 6:
Friar Lawrence is worried that Romeo and Juliet’s love is too passionate and will be brief, like
the explosion when ________fire____________ and ________powder____________ “kiss.” He also
says they may become sick of their sweet love, as one becomes sick of
_________honey___________ when he eats too much of it. His advice is to “love
_______doth__________.” Romeo, however, is so in love that he cannot find words to express
his feelings. Juliet cannot, either, saying that “They are but _________beggars___________ who
can count their ________worth________,” meaning that she has so much love that she cannot
even sum it up. Friar Lawrence marries them.