Romeo and Juliet

Cast

Montagues

Romeo – Yi An
Mercutio – Jun Hao
Benvolio – Tristan
Lady Montague – Joel
Gregory – Ethan

Capulets

Juliet – Udhaya
Tybalt – Rayshaun
Lord Capulet – Scott
Lady Capulet – Elise
Nurse – Yee Xian
Abraham – Amaan
Peter – Caleb

Citizens of Verona

Princess – Zi Yu
Paris - Ekin
Friar Lawrence – Adrian
Apothecary – Dylan Ooi
Brother John – Dylan Hunter
Balthasar – Yee Shern
Prologue - Khoghuelen

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ACT 1 SCENE 1

PROLOGUE
Our scene is set in the town of Verona,
where two families, both dignified and respected
have been fighting for years.
The younger members of these families
have carried on the war and things are getting worse.
Among these young rivals are the only children of the heads of
the families.
They are destined to be star-crossed lovers
And our stage is set to tell their tale of sadness,
As only their deaths can end this awful war.

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ACT 1 SCENE 1

(Enter Mercutio and Benvolio and Gregory. Mercutio and

Benvolio are laughing and chatting, but Gregory is wandering
about looking on edge)

GREGORY
Draw your swords! Here comes
two of the house of the Capulets!

MERCUTIO
If they want a fight, let them start it.

GREGORY
I am going to give them some evil looks, see how they like
that!

(Enter ABRAHAM and TYBALT. Tybalt stands looking moody

by the side of the stage, he hasn’t seen the Montagues,
but ABRAHAM sees Gregory giving him funny looks.)

ABRAHAM 
What’s your problem?

GREGORY 
Nothing, what’s your problem?

ABRAHAM 
Why are you giving me dirty looks?

GREGORY 
Are you starting something?

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ABRAHAM 
Starting something? ME? Wouldn’t waste my time on you!

GREGORY 
Oh yeah? Well at least my boss isn’t an idiot like yours!

ABRAHAM 
Right, that’s it! I’ve had enough of you!

GREGORY
Well come on then! Lets have a look at you!

(They fight)

BENVOLIO 
Part, fools!
Put your swords down! What are you doing?

(Beats down their swords

TYBALT comes over)

TYBALT 
I’m not surprised to see you messing about with these silly
kids, come on then let’s have a real fight!

BENVOLIO 
I am trying to stop them! Either get lost or come and help
me!

TYBALT 
Hang on! So you have your sword out but you’re not
fighting? Yeah right! I hate all the Montagues, especially
you, what a coward! Come on then!

(They fight)

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(Enter, Lady Montague, Lord and Lady Capulet, Princess
and the nurse.)

LORD CAPULET 
Whats going on? Montagues! Let me at them!!

LADY CAPULET 
Don’t be stupid!

CAPULET 
Get out of the way! Look! There is Lady Montague! She has
got her sword out! How dare she!

LADY MONTAGUE 
That villain Capulet! Don’t hold me! Let me go!

BENVOLIO 
Not a chance! Don’t get involved!

PRINCESS
STOP! Stop it all of you!
I have had enough of this!
I am your Princess and you will listen to me!
This old argument between you has got to stop.
There will be no more fighting,
On pain of death!
I mean it! I will show no mercy to the next person
Caught fighting in these streets.
Now go home, all of you!

(Exit all but LADY MONTAGUE, and BENVOLIO)

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LADY MONTAGUE 
Nephew, what went on here? Who started the fight?

BENVOLIO 
A couple of the young servants were having a scrap,
But then Tybalt arrived and made it all ten times worse!

LADY MONTAGUE 
Where is Romeo? Have you seen him today?
I am so glad he wasn’t fighting.

BENVOLIO 
I saw him earlier but he looked really upset,
And he legged it when he saw me coming.

LADY MONTAGUE 
He has been really down these last few days.
He has been shutting himself away in his room.
I’m getting worried about him.

BENVOLIO 
Any ideas what might be up with him Aunt?

LADY MONTAGUE 
No. I have tried to speak to him,
But he won’t say a thing!

(Enter ROMEO)

BENVOLIO 
Here he comes now! I will have a word with him.

LADY MONTAGUE 
OK I will go home.

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(Exit LADY MONTAGUE)

BENVOLIO 
Cousin Romeo! You seem really down lately.
What’s up mate?

ROMEO
Well….nothing, I am just…missing something…

BENVOLIO 
Something or someone? Are you in love?

ROMEO 
More like out of love, she’s not interested.

BENVOLIO 
Sorry to hear that. Plenty more fish in the sea though!

ROMEO
Not for me. I think she was the one.
She was so beautiful, and clever, and funny.

BENVOLIO
Oh come on mate, if she’s not interested,
Then she’s not interested!
Bet there are loads of girls better than her anyway!

ROMEO
Oh what do you know? Just leave me alone!

(ROMEO exits. BENVOLIO follows shaking his head.)

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ACT 1 SCENE 2

(Enter CAPULET and PARIS)

PARIS 
Lord Capulet I was wondering if you had
Thought anymore about me wanting to marry your
daughter?

CAPULET 
My daughter is still very young, I’m not sure she is ready
to be married yet, give it a couple of years eh?

PARIS 
I have seen younger girls than her be happily married!

CAPULET 
Yeah but those marriages don’t always work out!
Besides, I want her to marry someone she can love,
So take some time, see if she likes you
And we will see.
Look, I’m having a fancy dress party tonight,
why don’t you come?
You can spend some time with Juliet,
And see how you get on?

(PARIS nods and they walk off. Enter BENVOLIO and

ROMEO)

BENVOLIO
Did you hear that Romeo? A fancy dress party! That would
be just the thing to take your mind of this girl! They won’t

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know it’s us cos we will be all dressed up, bet there will be
loads of gorgeous girls there for you to meet!

ROMEO
I don’t think so…..

BENVOLIO
Oh come on! Please?

ROMEO
Oh alright then! But don’t hold your breath, no-one can
possibly be as gorgeous as her!

(ROMEO AND BENVOLIO exit)

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ACT 1 SCENE 3

(Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse) 

LADY CAPULET 
Nurse, where's my daughter?

Nurse 
Well! I did call her! Where can she be? JULIET!!???
JULIET!!

(Enter JULIET)

JULIET 
What?! Who wants me?

Nurse 
Your mother

JULIET 
Well, here I am. What do you want?

LADY CAPULET 
Well…how old are you Juliet?

Nurse 
OOooh! She is fourteen! I can tell you how old she is to the
hour!!
Oh such a pretty baby she was!! And so funny! I remember
this time when…

LADY CAPULET 
Oh will you please be quiet!!

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Nurse 
It was a really funny story though! See, she must have
been about three and…

JULIET 
Oh nurse! Please be quiet!!

Nurse 
Alright, alright!

LADY CAPULET 
Tell me Juliet,
What do you think about getting married?

JULIET 
I haven’t really thought about it.

LADY CAPULET
Well, think about it now.
There are other girls your age happily married,
And there is a young nobleman called Paris
Who like you to be his wife!

Nurse 
PHWOOARR!! He is so gorgeous!!

LADY CAPULET 
He is quite handsome, yes.
So what do you think Juliet?
He is coming to the party tonight.
It would be great if you did like him.
What do you think?

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JULIET
Well, I will see what I think.

LADY CAPULET
Your father and I think this would be a good marriage
So make sure you try your best to like him!
Ooh that’s the door bell, the guests must be arriving.
Come on!

(Exit LADY CAPULET, JULIET and NURSE)

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ACT 1 SCENE 4

(Enter ROMEO, MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO)

MERCUTIO 
I am so up for a party!! Hey Romeo! Going to join me in
some dancing tonight? See if we can get you moving?

ROMEO 
Not me, I am too depressed. I think I will just watch.

MERCUTIO 
Oh come off it! Cheer up and BOOGIE!!

(MERCUTIO dances around.)

ROMEO 
I don’t think coming to a Capulet party is a very good idea.
I have got a bad feeling about this.

BENVOLIO 
Come on you two hurry up! We will miss the party at this
rate!

ROMEO 
I wish we would miss it.
I have a feeling that something is going to happen tonight.
But maybe you are right, come on lets go in.

MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO

Yeah! Come on, lets go have a party!!!

(They all exit.)

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ACT1 SCENE 5

(Enter CAPULET, with JULIET and others of his house,

meeting the Guests and Maskers)

CAPULET 
Welcome all! We will have dancing and music tonight!

(Music plays, and they dance)

ROMEO 
Who is that girl over there?

BENVOLIO 
No idea!

ROMEO 
She is the most beautiful girl I have ever seen!
She is brighter than a flame, more precious than a diamond
She makes all the other girls here look so ugly!
I can’t believe I thought I was in love before,
Now I have seen her, I know what true love is.

TYBALT 
That sounds like a Montague!
You! Quick, get me my sword!
How dare he come to OUR party like this!!
I am going to kill him!

LORD CAPULET 
Hey Tybalt! What is the matter? Where are you going with
that sword?

TYBALT 
Uncle, this is a Montague, our enemy!

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He has come to ruin our party!

CAPULET 
Young Romeo is it?

TYBALT 
Yes!

CAPULET 
Leave him alone.
I have heard that he is good lad,
I will not allow him to be hurt in my house.
Now come on, this is a party!

TYBALT 
I will not leave him alone!!

CAPULET 
Oh yes you will!
This is my house and what I say goes!

TYBALT 
You have GOT to be joking!!

CAPULET 
I am not joking, now stop this!
People are looking and you are spoiling the party!
Come on everyone! Lets dance!

TYBALT 
OK, I will leave him alone tonight,
But I won’t forget this!

(Exit TYBALT)

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ROMEO 
I know that I am not worthy to touch your hand
but would you dance with me?

JULIET 
You shouldn’t be so hard on yourself.
Of course I will dance with you.

ROMEO 
If I am good enough to dance with you,
Am I good enough to kiss you?

JULIET 
I think you are.

(They kiss)

NURSE
JULIET! Your Mother wants to speak to you!

(JULIET leaves)

ROMEO 
Who is her mother?

NURSE 
Well, well! Her mother is Lady Capulet.

ROMEO 
She is a Capulet? Oh no!

BENVOLIO 
Lets get out of here.

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CAPULET 
Leaving already? My word it is quite late!
Well then off to bed!

(Exeunt all but JULIET and Nurse)

JULIET 
Come here quick! Who is that?

NURSE 
I don’t know.

JULIET 
Go ask his name.

NURSE
His name is Romeo, and a Montague;
The only son of your great enemy.

JULIET 
My only love sprung from my only hate!

NURSE 
What?!

JULIET 
Oh nothing, forget I spoke. Come on, lets go to bed.

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ACT 2 SCENE 1

(Enter ROMEO) 

ROMEO 
How can I go home without seeing her again?

(He climbs the wall, and leaps down within it

Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO)

BENVOLIO 
Romeo! my cousin Romeo!

MERCUTIO 
I reckon he has gone home to bed. Oh Romeo! Romeo!
You miserable so and so! You pathetic, girly, love sick
puppy!

BENVOLIO 
Well, it’s pointless looking for him now
If he heard you he will just be annoyed!
Come on lets go home!

(Exit BENVOLIO AND MERCUTIO)

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ACT 2 SCENE 2

(Enter ROMEO) 

ROMEO 
It’s alright for him to laugh!
He has never been in love!

(JULIET appears above at a window)

ROMEO
Oh! Look! There is Juliet! She is like the sun.
Oh she is my love! I wish she knew how I felt.
Her eyes are like stars.
Should I speak to her?
Look she rests her hand on her face,
I wish that I could stroke her cheek.

JULIET 
Oh dear.

ROMEO 
She speaks:
O, speak again, bright angel!

JULIET 
O Romeo, Romeo! Why do you have to be a Montague?
Leave your family and change your name,
And if you won’t just tell me you love me,
And I will not longer be a Capulet!

ROMEO 
Shall I listen more or shall I speak?

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 JULIET 
It’s only your name that is my enemy
If your name was Smith or Jones
you would still be that same wonderful, handsome Romeo
So please, change your name and be mine forever.

ROMEO 
I believe what you say is true,
Just let me be your love
And I will change my name!

JULIET 
Who is there? Who is listening to me?!

ROMEO 
I do not want to speak my name as you hate it so much.

JULIET 
I have only heard you speak a few words before
But I know your voice! Romeo! How did you get in here?
If any of my family find you they will kill you!

ROMEO 
I climbed the walls,
Nothing could keep me away from you!

JULIET 
But if they see you they will kill you!

ROMEO 
I am more afraid that you will say you don’t love me
Than I am that they will find me! Besides, it is so dark
No-one will find me here.
Tell me, did you mean what I heard you say?

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Do you love me?

JULIET 
I am so embarrassed that you heard what I said!
Do you love me?
No wait, don’t answer, I think that you will say yes
But I need to know if you really mean it.
Do you love me?

ROMEO 
Juliet, I swear I love you and if you love me too then…

JULIET 
No do not say anymore!
This is all too sudden! My head is spinning!
I must go.
When we see each other again we will know if this is real.
Good night, good night!

ROMEO 
Don’t go! Tell me you love me too.

JULIET 
I already have!

NURSE calls within

Juliet!!

JULIET
Someone is coming! Good night my love!

NURSE
JULIET!!!

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JULIET
I’m coming!! Wait here, I will be back!

(Juliet Exit)

ROMEO 
Is this all a dream? It is too good to be true!

(Re-enter JULIET)

JULIET 
Romeo, if you mean what you say
Then marry me tomorrow.

Nurse 
JULIET!!!

JULIET 
I’m coming!
What do you say?
I will send a messenger to you tomorrow
To hear your answer.
Good night!

(Exit Juliet)

ROMEO 
I will miss you so much.

(Re-enter JULIET, above)

JULIET 
Pssst! Romeo!

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ROMEO 
Yes love?

JULIET 
What time tomorrow shall I send my messenger?

ROMEO 
Nine am.

JULIET 
It feels like twenty years until then.
Good night!

ROMEO 
I must go and see Father Lawrence,
Explain what has happened and see if he will marry us!

(Exit)

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ACT 2 SCENE 3

(Enter FRIAR LAURENCE)

FRIAR LAURENCE 
It is so early!
I must get to work though, making my potions and cures.
I know how to brew a cure for nearly all illness
And I know the poisons that grow beside them.

(Enter ROMEO)

ROMEO 
Good morning, father.

FRIAR LAURENCE 
Bless me! It is young Romeo!
You are up early, but looking at you again,
I wonder, have to even been to bed?

ROMEO 
I have not been to bed Father.

FRIAR LAURENCE 
Where have you been, then?

ROMEO 
I have been at the Capulet’s house,
they had a party last night.
I met someone, we are in love
And we need your help.

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FRIAR LAURENCE 
Who are you in love with now?
I take it is not the same girl as last week,
The one who wasn’t interested?

ROMEO 
No, not her, she is an ugly crow
Compared to the one I love now.
Her name is Juliet,
And she is the daughter of Lord Capulet.
She loves me too.
We want you to marry us today.

FRIAR LAURENCE 
Holy Saint Francis!
You only just met!
You have been crying over some other girl for weeks!

ROMEO 
Don’t say that!
Juliet loves me and I love her!
So will you marry us?

FRIAR LAURENCE 
Well, I think it is very quick,
I hope that you won’t regret this choice.
But if you two get married
It might stop the fighting between your families.
I will help you. Lets go.

(Exit)

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ACT 2 SCENE 4

(Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO)

MERCUTIO 
Where is Romeo? Did he come home last night?

BENVOLIO 
No he didn’t. Listen to this though, You know Tybalt? She
has sent a challenge to Romeo to come and fight her!

MERCUTIO 
Do you think Romeo will fight her?

BENVOLIO
Yeah and he will win!

MERCUTIO 
If he can stop day dreaming
over this mystery girl for long enough!
Tybalt is really hard,
I’m not sure if Romeo could take her in a fight.

(Enter ROMEO)

BENVOLIO 
Here comes Romeo.

MERCUTIO 
Where have you been?
We spent ages looking for you last night!

ROMEO 
Morning boys!

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MERCUTIO 
Is that all you have got to say for yourself?!

ROMEO 
I am sorry Mercutio.
I had something to do.

MERCUTIO 
We are supposed to be your best mates
and you go all gooey over some girl and run off!

ROMEO 
Who is this?

(Enter NURSE and PETER)

MERCUTIO 
What does she look like!!

NURSE
Hello boys! I am looking for Romeo of the Montagues.
Do you know him?

ROMEO 
I am Romeo.

NURSE 
I need a private word with you.

BENVOLIO 
Oooh Romeo has a date!!

MERCUTIO 
Hey Romeo, is this the secret girlfriend?!

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ROMEO 
Come on.

MERCUTIO 
Goodbye gorgeous!

(Exit MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO)

NURSE 
WELL! He was a cheeky so and so! And you Peter!
Why didn’t you defend me?

PETER
He was only joking!

ROMEO 
Just ignore Mercutio.

NURSE
Ohh I am so CROSS!
I can hardly remember why I am here!
Oh yes! My lady Juliet sent me to you.

ROMEO 
Juliet!

NURSE 
She has told me about your plans
And I just want to say that if you have changed your mind,
or if you hurt her
Then you will have to answer to me!

ROMEO 
I would never hurt her.

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Tell her that we are to be married at three o’clock
In Friar Lawrence’s church.

NURSE
Oh! She will be so happy! Come on Peter!

PETER
Yes madame.
(Exit)

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ACT 2 SCENE 5

(Enter JULIET) 

JULIET 
The nurse has been gone for three hours now!
Maybe she couldn’t find Romeo?
Oh the time is dragging so slowly!
Here she comes!!

(Enter NURSE)

JULIET
O my dearest nurse, what news?
Have you seen Romeo? What did he say?

NURSE 
I am so tired! What a morning!!

JULIET 
Nurse, what did Romeo say?

NURSE 
Hang on! Can’t you see I am out of breath?

JULIET 
Is the news good or bad?
Just tell me that!

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NURSE 
Well, I can’t say I think much of your choice!
Romeo! He is alright I suppose but not all that handsome.
He does seem quite well spoken, and I suppose he does
have nice eyes….

JULIET 
NURSE! I know what he looks like!
What did he say about our wedding?!

NURSE 
Oh I have such a headache!

JULIET 
Oh dear, look nurse I am sorry that you are ill
But PLEASE tell me what he said!

NURSE
You are to be married at two o’clock today
At Friar Lawrence’s church. Ah! That has brought
Some colour to your face! Go girl, be happy!

JULIET
Thank you!

(Exit JULIET and NURSE)

(The wedding scene will be played to music.)

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ACT 3 SCENE 1

(Enter MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO)

BENVOLIO
Come on Mercutio, let's go home.
There are Capulets everywhere
We are going to get into a fight!

MERCUTIO 
Don’t be such a wimp.

BENVOLIO 
Oh thanks! Great, here come the Capulets!
I told you!

MERCUTIO 
Oh let them come! I don’t care!

(Enter TYBALT and others)

TYBALT 
Alright lads? I want a word with you.

MERCUTIO 
Just a word? Why not make it a word and a punch?

TYBALT 
If you wind me up I will.

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MERCUTIO 
OOOOOHH! SCARY!!

(He pushes Tybalt)

BENVOLIO
Cut it out! You remember what the Princess said
She will kill anyone she finds fighting in the streets!

TYBALT 
Mercutio, I know you hang out with that idiot Romeo,
I want him, not you.

MERCUTIO
Who are you calling an idiot?
You should take a look in a mirror
if you want to see the real idiot around here!

(Enter ROMEO)

TYBALT 
Well look who it is!
Romeo, You are a villain.

ROMEO 
I am no villain!
If you think that then you don’t know me at all.
Normally I would have you for calling me that
But I have a good reason not to fight you.
So goodbye.

TYBALT 
You coward! You have insulted my family
By crashing our party.

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Fight me!

ROMEO 
No.

MERCUTIO 
What!? Are you going to let her get away with that?
Tybalt, I will fight you!

TYBALT 
What?

MERCUTIO 
I will fight you,
Who do you think you are anyway?
Stupid Capulet!

TYBALT 
Right, that’s it!

(They fight)

ROMEO 
Stop! Benvolio help me!

(TYBALT under ROMEO's arm stabs MERCUTIO, and runs

off with his followers)

MERCUTIO 
I am hurt, fetch a doctor!

ROMEO 
Come on, it can’t be that bad?

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MERCUTIO 
Oh no it’s just a scratch but it is enough. I am done for.
Why? Why did you hold me back?
It is your fault that I am hurt!

ROMEO 
I thought I was doing the right thing.

MERCUTIO 
Help me Benvolio!
A curse on all Capulets and Montagues!
It is because of your stupid fighting that I am dying!

(Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO)

ROMEO 
It’s all my fault.
Mercutio is one of my best friends,
But Tybalt is my new wife’s cousin!
What was I supposed to do?

(Re-enter BENVOLIO)

BENVOLIO 
O Romeo Mercutio's dead!
And here comes Tybalt back again.

ROMEO 
She has killed my friend!
I can’t let her get away again!

(Re-enter TYBALT)

ROMEO
Tybalt! Brave Mercutio lies dead because of you,

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But his soul is waiting above our heads
Either you or I must join him!
Now, let us see who it is to be!

(They fight and TYBALT falls)

BENVOLIO 
Romeo, get out of here!
The Prince is coming!

ROMEO 
What have I done?

BENVOLIO 
RUN!

(Exit ROMEO
Enter PRINCESS, LADY CAPULET)

PRINCESS
What has happened here?

BENVOLIO
Tybalt killed Mercuito,
So Romeo killed Tybalt.

LADY CAPULET 
Tybalt, my cousin! Prince, I demand revenge!

PRINCESS
Benvolio, who began this fight?

BENVOLIO 
Tybalt. She tried to fight Romeo,
But Romeo said no.

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Tybalt fought and killed Mercutio,
And then came back again, looking again for Romeo
They fought and Romeo killed her.

LADY CAPULET 
He is a Montague! You can’t believe him!
Romeo killed Tybalt! He must die!

PRINCESS 
For Romeo’s crime he will be exiled.
Never again to return to Verona.

(Exit)

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ACT 3 SCENE 2

(Enter JULIET)
 
JULIET 
I can’t wait until tonight, to see my Romeo again.
O, here comes my nurse. You look so upset! What has
happened?

NURSE 
Dead! Brave, good and true and now dead!

JULIET
What? Dead? My true love?
We only got married today?
Why? Why did this happen?
I can’t live without him!

NURSE
I wish that Romeo were dead!

JULIET
What? I don’t understand!
You just told me he WAS dead!
Tell me what is going on?
Is my Romeo dead or not?

NURSE
Tybalt is dead! She was killed,
Killed by Romeo and now Romeo is exiled,

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Never again to return to Verona!

JULIET 
O No! How could such a handsome face hide a killer?
Was I wrong to love him?

NURSE
A curse on Romeo!

JULIET
How dare you!

NURSE
How can you defend the man who killed your cousin?

JULIET
That man is my husband!
And he is banished?
Then will I never see him again?

NURSE
I know that he is hiding at Friar Lawrence’s church.
I will find him and bring him to you.

JULIET
So we can say our last goodbyes.

(Exit)

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ACT 3 SCENE 3

(Enter FRIAR LAURENCE)

 
FRIAR LAURENCE 
Romeo! Come out!
You are in so much trouble.

(Enter ROMEO)

ROMEO 
What news?
What has the Princess decided?
Am I to be put to death?

FRIAR LAURENCE 
The Princess has been merciful, you are not to die
But to leave Verona forever.

ROMEO 
Away from Juliet? Forever?
I would rather die!

FRIAR LAURENCE 
I am sure we can think of something.

ROMEO 
No! I will not live without Juliet!

FRIAR LAURENCE 
Don’t be so ungrateful!
Better to be sent away than to die!

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(Knock at the door)

FRIAR LAURENCE 
Romeo, hide!

ROMEO 
No!

(Knocking)

FRIAR LAURENCE 
Romeo! You will be taken away! HIDE!

(Knocking and ROMEO hides)

FRIAR LAURENCE
Who is there? What do you want?

NURSE
I come from Lady Juliet.

FRIAR LAURENCE 
Welcome, then.

(Enter Nurse)

NURSE 
Where is my lady's lord, where's Romeo?

FRIAR LAURENCE 
Hiding and very unhappy.

NURSE 
Juliet too, she hasn’t stopped crying!

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ROMEO! Stand up! Be a man, for Juliet you must be strong!

ROMEO 
Nurse!

Nurse 
Romeo!

ROMEO 
How is Juliet?
Does she hate me for killing her cousin?
What does she say about me having to leave?

NURSE 
O, she says nothing, sir, but cries and cries.

ROMEO 
I hate myself for doing this to her!
I would be better dead!

(Draws his sword and points it at his own heart)

FRIAR LAURENCE
STOP! You foolish man!
Listen, Tybalt wanted to kill you,
but you killed her instead, that’s a good thing!
The law says you should have been killed for what you did,
Instead you are only sent away, that’s a good thing,
Juliet is alive and loves you still, again you should be happy
Not crying and moaning!
Go and see Juliet tonight,
but leave early in the morning for Mantua.
Live there, until we can find a good time
To tell everyone about your marriage,

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Beg forgiveness of the princess and bring you back!

Nurse 
You are so wise!
Romeo I will tell Juliet you are coming.
Here is a ring she asked me to give you.

ROMEO 
Then she does still love me!

(NURSE Exit)

FRIAR LAURENCE 
Go quickly, go to see Juliet!
Stay in Mantua and I will send a message to you
As soon as I can!
Farewell.

ROMEO 
I am going to miss you.
I must go to Juliet!

(Exit)

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ACT 3 SCENE 4

(Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and PARIS)

 
CAPULET 
Tybalt’s death has meant that I have had not had time to
speak to Juliet about your wedding.

PARIS 
I understand, in times of sadness, there is no room for
love.
Madam, good night: speak well of me to Juliet.

LADY CAPULET 
I will, and I will know how she feels in the morning.
To-night she is too sad about Tybalt.

CAPULET 
Sir Paris, I will take a chance and tell you that Juliet does
love you.
She is a good girl and normally does as I tell her.
Wife, go to Juliet and tell that Paris loves her
and that on Wednesday, no that is too soon, on Thursday,
she will become his wife!
Will you be ready? Is this alright with you?
It won’t be a big do,
not with Tybalt being only just killed,
people might think we are being disrespectful!
So what do you think to Thursday then?

PARIS 
My lord, I wish that Thursday was tomorrow!

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CAPULET 
Fantastic! Thursday it is then! See you then!
Wife, go to Juliet and prepare her to be married!
Good night!

(Exit)

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ACT 3 SCENE 5

(Enter ROMEO and JULIET)

 
JULIET 
Do you have to go?
It’s not even nearly day.
I can still hear the nightingales singing!

ROMEO 
It was the lark, singing of the coming of morning,
Not the nightingale: look, love,
The sun is rising!
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

JULIET 
That light is not the sun!
It could be a shooting star sent to light your journey,
So you don’t need to go yet!

ROMEO 
Fine! My love, you are right
It is not the sun!
Let me be taken, let me die!
Juliet wishes it to be so!

JULIET 
Oh it is the sun! It is!
Go Romeo go!
It is getting lighter and lighter now!

ROMEO 
The more light there is the darker my heart grows!

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(Enter Nurse, to the chamber)

NURSE
Madam!

JULIET 
Nurse?

NURSE
You mother is coming!
Day is breaking, look out!

(Exit)

JULIET 
Then, window, let day in, and let life out.

ROMEO 
Farewell, farewell! one kiss, and I'll go.

(He moves away)

JULIET 
Are you still there my darling husband?
You must write to me every day.
It feels like forever until I can see you again.

ROMEO 
Farewell!
I will write to you all the time.

JULIET 
O do you think we shall ever meet again?

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ROMEO 
Of course my love, we will look back on this and laugh!

JULIET 
O no, no.
I think I can see you in my mind,
And you are dead! How pale you look!

ROMEO 
You look pale to me too,
It is only because we are sad to part.
I must go, goodbye!

(Exit)

JULIET 
Hurry back to me.

(LADY CAPULET call from offstage)

LADY CAPULET 
Daughter? Are you up?

JULIET 
Is that my mother?
She is up early! I wonder why?

(Enter LADY CAPULET)

LADY CAPULET 
Juliet! What’s wrong?

JULIET 
I am not well.

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LADY CAPULET 
Still weeping for Tybalt?
Well, I suppose it shows how much you loved her,
But you must cheer up!

JULIET 
I will cry, for as long as I feel my terrible loss.

LADY CAPULET 
Well, shall I tell you some wonderful, joyful news?

JULIET 
I could do with some joyful news!
What is it?

LADY CAPULET 
Well, you are lucky to have a father who cares for you!
He has decided to cheer you up
by arranging a day of joy,
one that you will not expect,
and I had hardly dare hope would happen!

JULIET 
Day of joy?

LADY CAPULET 
Next Thursday morning,
The young, rich and handsome man,
Lord Paris, at Saint Peter's Church,
Shall happily make you a joyful bride!

JULIET 
NO! By Saint Peter’s church!
He will not make me a joyful bride!

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How can you expect me to get married so fast!?
I have hardly even met him!
Tell my father I will not marry Paris!
I will NEVER marry Paris, I hate him!

LADY CAPULET 
Here comes your father; tell him so yourself,
And see how he takes it!

(Enter CAPULET and Nurse)

CAPULET 
Still crying Juliet?
Have you not told her the good news?

LADY CAPULET 
I have, but she says she will not marry him!

CAPULET 
What? How dare she?
Is she not grateful for my hard work in finding her
So handsome and rich a husband?
Is she not proud that pathetic and unworthy as she is
That a Lord wants to marry her?

JULIET 
How can I be proud or grateful for something I hate?

CAPULET 
How dare you!
Who do you think you are?
Answering me back!
Arguing with my decision!
You will prepare yourself to be married on Thursday
If I have drag you there, you will go!

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You ugly, ungrateful, rude disobedient child!
LADY CAPULET 
Stop! Stop have you gone mad!?

JULIET 
Father, I beg you on my knees, please listen!

CAPULET 
No! You disgusting, disobedient child!
Get off me!
You will get yourself to church on Thursday
Or never after can you be my daughter,
You can starve in the streets for all I care!
Do as I say!
I wish that you had never been born!

NURSE
My Lord! Stop shouting at her like that!

CAPULET 
Get out nurse!

NURSE
I haven’t said anything wrong!

CAPULET 
Shut up you mumbling old fool!

LADY CAPULET 
Calm down!

CAPULET 
It makes me so angry!
I have been working for years to find her a husband!

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A Lord, handsome, rich, a real catch!
And she cries and whines,
She says “I will not love! I am too young!”
No! I will not be made to look a fool.
I mean what I say; you will do as I command
Or you will starve, beg in the streets,
Die for all I care!!
You will be married on Thursday!

(Exit)

JULIET 
Will no-one listen to me?
Mother! Don’t send me away!
Don’t make me marry Paris!

LADY CAPULET 
Don’t speak to me!
I have had enough of you!

(Exit)

JULIET 
Oh Nurse! What can we do?
I am married to Romeo!
Please Nurse, help me!
Comfort me!

NURSE
Well, here’s what I think.
Romeo is sent away for ever, he may never return!
I think it best you married Paris.
Oh Juliet, Paris is so handsome and rich,
He is so much better than Romeo!
I think you are lucky to have a second marriage,

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It is so much better than your first,
And anyway Romeo is as good as dead being so far away!
JULIET 
Do you really mean that?

NURSE
I do.

JULIET 
Then there is the end.

NURSE
What?

JULIET 
Well, I feel so much better now!
Go to my Father, tell him I am sorry
And that I have gone to see Father Laurence
To pray for forgiveness.

NURSE
I will. Good for you!

(Exit)

JULIET 
You old hag!
How could you say such things to me!
From now on you and I are finished.
I will go and see Friar Laurence see if he can help me!

(Exit)

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ACT 4 SCENE 1

(Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and PARIS) 

FRIAR LAURENCE 
On Thursday, sir? That is not much time!

PARIS 
Lord Capulet wants the wedding to be Thursday
And I am happy to go agree!

FRIAR LAURENCE 
You say you are not sure how Juliet feels?
I don’t like the sound of this much.

PARIS 
She is so upset over Tybalt,
Her father thinks that this will cheer her up.

FRIAR LAURENCE 
Look sir, here is Juliet now.

(Enter JULIET)

PARIS 
Hello! My lady and my wife!

JULIET 
Not yet sir.

PARIS 
On Thursday you will be!

JULIET 
What must be shall be.

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PARIS 
Are you here to see Father Laurence?

JULIET 
Yes.

PARIS 
Will you tell him that you love me?

JULIET 
If I do, I would rather say it when you are not here to
listen.

PARIS 
Then I will leave you!

(Exit)

JULIET 
Oh shut the door!
Tell me what to do!
I can’t marry Paris!

FRIAR LAURENCE 
I know! I know!
Things look so bad, but I do have an idea.
It is so risky though, and you will need to be very brave.

JULIET 
I would rather jump of the highest bridge than marry Paris!
I would rather be thrown into a pit of snakes!

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FRIAR LAURENCE 
OK then this is what we shall do.
Go home, be very cheerful and happy.
Say that you have changed your mind
And that you will marry Paris.
Once you are in bed on Wednesday night
And everyone has left you,
Drink this.
Your skin will grow pale and cold,
You will not seem to breathe.
In the morning when they come to fetch you,
They will think that you are dead.
They will carry you to your family’s tomb.
After two days, you will wake up,
And I will send for Romeo to be there when you do
So that he can take you away with him.
Do you think that you are brave enough?

JULIET 
Give it to me! I am not afraid!

FRIAR LAURENCE 
Go then, do as I say.
I will write to Romeo.

(Exit)

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ACT 4 SCENE 2

(Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, NURSE)

CAPULET 
Here are the plans for the wedding,
The guest list and the menu.
I don’t know if we will be ready in time!
Where is Juliet?

NURSE
Gone to see Friar Laurence.

CAPULET 
Maybe he can talk some sense into her.

NURSE
Here she comes now! She looks happy!

(Enter JULIET)

CAPULET 
Juliet! How are you?

JULIET 
I have come to say that I am sorry.
From now on I will do as you ask.

CAPULET 
I am so pleased to hear that!
We will tell Paris.

JULIET 
I have seen him today at Friar Laurence’s house,
And I showed him how I felt.

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CAPULET 
What fantastic news!
We owe so much thanks to Friar Laurence
For making you see sense!

JULIET 
Nurse, will you come with me to my room
And help me choose a dress for my wedding?

(Exit JULIET and NURSE)

LADY CAPULET 
We will never be ready for this wedding in time!

CAPULET 
Don’t worry!
I will sort it all out,
You go and help the nurse with Juliet’s dress.
I am so happy to see Juliet back to her old self!

(Exit)

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ACT 4 SCENE 3

(Enter JULIET and NURSE) 

JULIET 
Yes, that dress is lovely Nurse.
Will you leave me on my own tonight?
I need some time to myself before my big day.

(Enter LADY CAPULET)

LADY CAPULET 
Do you need my help?

JULIET 
No mother, we have found a lovely dress.
Why don’t you let the nurse look after you tonight
for a change?
I would like to be on my own for a while,
Tomorrow will be such a busy day.
There must be so many things to get ready,
Perhaps she could help?

LADY CAPULET 
Good night Juliet,
Sleep well!

(Exit LADY CAPULET and NURSE)

JULIET 
Goodbye. God knows when we shall meet again.
I am so scared of what I have to do now.
What if the potion doesn’t work?
Then I will end up getting married tomorrow!
Or even worse, what I wake up too early,

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Before Romeo has come to get me
And I am in the grave surrounded with bones
And skulls and rats!
No, I mustn’t think about it!
Romeo, I drink to you!

(She falls upon her bed)

ACT 4 SCENE 4

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(Enter LADY CAPULET, CAPULET and NURSE)
 
LADY CAPULET 
Come here and take these for the tables,
And where is the wedding cake?

NURSE 
They are just finishing the icing now!

CAPULET 
Hurry, hurry! It is nearly nine!
Paris will be here soon!

(Music)

CAPULET
Nurse! Wife! Here is Paris now!
Go and get Juliet up, nurse, and get her dressed!

(Exit NURSE)

ACT 4 SCENE 5

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(Enter NURSE)

NURSE 
Juliet! Juliet! Oh bless her she is fast asleep!
Juliet! JULIET! Oh come on you lazy bones
It is your wedding day, you should be up and about!
Juliet!
Juliet? Why are you still dressed?
Juliet!!!! Oh she is as cold as ice!
Oh she’s dead! She’s dead!!
Oh Lady Capulet! Lord Capulet!!

(Enter LADY CAPULET)

LADY CAPULET 
What’s all the noise?

NURSE
Oh no! oh sad day!

LADY CAPULET 
What is the matter?

NURSE
Look, look!

LADY CAPULET 
Oh no! Oh no! My child! My life!
Oh wake up! WAKE UP!
Oh Nurse, call for help!

(Enter CAPULET)

CAPULET 
Come on where is Juliet? Paris is waiting!

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NURSE 
She's dead! Oh sad day!

LADY CAPULET 
She's dead, she's dead, she's dead!

CAPULET 
Let me see her!
No, no she is dead.
Death lies on her lips like frost.

(Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and PARIS)

FRIAR LAURENCE 
Is the bride ready to go to church?

CAPULET 
She will go to church but not return!
She is dead. Oh Paris, death has stolen your wife!

PARIS 
I have waited so long for today,
And this is what it brings!

LADY CAPULET 
Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day!
This is the worst day of my life!
I had only one child and now she is gone.

NURSE 
Oh this truly is the worst day ever known!

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FRIAR LAURENCE 
Dry up your tears, she is in heaven now.
Cover her in flowers and take her to church.
She will be laid to rest in your great monument.

CAPULET 
Cancel all the wedding plans and where there
Was light and joy and colour let there be black.

(Exit)

ACT 5 SCENE 1

(Enter ROMEO)

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ROMEO 
I had a dream that I would get some good news today!
A dream that Juliet found me dead,
But kissed me back to life!

(Enter BALTHASAR)

ROMEO
Ah! News from Verona!
Do you have letters for me? From Friar Laurence?
How is my Father?
How is Juliet? As long as she is well I am happy!

BALTHASAR 
Oh Romeo! Juliet is dead!
I saw them bury her in Capulet’s tomb,
And I came here at once to tell you!

ROMEO 
NO!
Get me a horse.
I leave for Verona tonight.

BALTHASAR 
Wait! You look like a madman!

ROMEO 
I am fine.
Have you no letters to me from the friar?

BALTHASAR 
No, my good lord.

ROMEO 
Never mind, just go and get the horses.

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(Exit BALTHASAR)

ROMEO
Well, Juliet, I will sleep next to you tonight.
How shall I choose to die?
I think I can remember an apothecary
Who sells some potions that I could use.
I will go to him now.

(ROMEO leaves and walks for a while then bangs on a door.

Enter Apothecary)

APOTHECARY 
Who calls so loud?

ROMEO 
Come here. Do you know how to make a poison
That will quickly allow a man to end his life?

APOTHECARY 
Such drugs I have; but the law
Is death to anyone who sells them.

ROMEO 
I can see that you are poor.
I will give you a thousand pieces of gold
For a bottle of your drug.

APOTHECARY 
It is only because I am so poor that I will agree.
Take this and put it in any drink you like.
It will do the job.

ROMEO 
There is your gold.

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Goodbye! Buy yourself some food.
To me this is heaven, not poison!
I will use you at Juliet’s grave.

(Exit)

ACT 5 SCENE 2

(Enter FRIAR JOHN) 

FRIAR JOHN 
Friar Laurence! Are you in?

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(Enter FRIAR LAURENCE)

FRIAR LAURENCE 
Hello Friar John! Just got back from Mantua?
How was Romeo? Did he send me a letter?

FRIAR JOHN 
I have not been to Mantua!
I was delayed.

FRIAR LAURENCE 
Who took the letter I sent to Romeo then?

FRIAR JOHN 
It’s here I could not send it.

FRIAR LAURENCE 
Oh no! That was a very important letter!
Then Romeo will not be there when Juliet wakes!
Oh quick! We must go to the cemetery!
I will bring Juliet back here until I can send for Romeo.

(Exit)

ACT 5 SCENE 3

(Enter PARIS)

PARIS 
My sweet flower, my Juliet!
I bring you flowers.
I will come to your grave and cry every night.

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(Hears a sound)

PARIS
Someone’s coming!

(He hides)

(Enter ROMEO and BALTHASAR)

ROMEO 
Give me the crow bar so I can enter the tomb.
Here is a letter for my mother,
Please deliver it in the morning.
Now go away, I only want to see her face again
And take a ring from her finger,
But I don’t want to be disturbed.

BALTHASAR 
I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you.

ROMEO 
Thank you, friend. Now goodbye.

BALTHASAR 
He looks wild, I’m afraid he will do something awful
So I will hide here and check he is OK.

(Hides)

ROMEO 

Now I will see my love.

(Opens the tomb)

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PARIS 
That’s Romeo! He has come to harm the bodies
of his Capulet enemies!
STOP! You vile Montague!
I arrest you in the name of the Princess!

ROMEO 
You are a good man Paris so I will give you a chance,
I will enter this grave and if you try to stop me
Then I will kill you.
So go away!

PARIS 
No! I arrest you!

ROMEO 
You will not take me!

(They fight)

PARIS 
O, I am killed!

(Falls)

PARIS
Please, please lie me with Juliet!

(Dies)

ROMEO 
I will.
Poor Paris.

(Laying PARIS in the tomb)

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Oh there is my love, my Juliet!
You are still so beautiful, how can that be?
There is Tybalt, wrapped in her shroud,
I will make things right Tybalt,
And use the hand that killed you to finish my own life.
Juliet, you are still so lovely,
I will stay with you here forever.
Eyes, look for the last time.
Arms, take a last embrace.
Lips, one final kiss.
Here's to my love!

(Drinks)

ROMEO
Oh these drugs are quick. So with a kiss I die.

(Dies)

(JULIET wakes)

JULIET 
Oh! I remember where I am!
But where is my Romeo?
Here! And Paris too, both dead?
What’s this? Romeo has drunk poison!
There is none left to help me follow you!
I will kiss you.
Maybe some of the mixture is still on your lips?
No. Someone is coming.
I must be quick!
Oh a dagger! So I die!

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(Falls on ROMEO's body, and dies)

(Enter FRIAR LAURENCE outside the tomb)

FRIAR LAURENCE 
I must be quick! Who is there?

BALTHASAR 
Balthasar, I came here with Romeo.

FRIAR LAURENCE 
Then that is his torch I see in Capulet’s tomb?

BALTHASAR 
It is.

FRIAR LAURENCE 
How long has he been there?

BALTHASAR 
For half an hour.

FRIAR LAURENCE 
Come with me quickly!

BALTHASAR 
I can’t I told him I was gone!

FRIAR LAURENCE 
Stay, then; I'll go alone.
Romeo!

(Enters the tomb)

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FRIAR LAURENCE
Romeo! and Paris too?
And Juliet!
All dead!

(Enter the Princess)

PRINCESS 
What is this?
Paris is killed! Romeo too lies here dead
And Juliet warm and bleeding and dead again?
Who can tell me what has happened here?

(Enter rest of the cast)

CAPULET 
What is going on?

LADY CAPULET 
The people in the street shout Romeo,
Some say Juliet, and some Paris; and all run,
towards our monument.

CAPULET 
O heavens! O wife, look how Juliet bleeds!
But she was dead!

LADY CAPULET 
Oh!

LADY MONTAGUE 
What? Is that my Romeo?
How can this be?

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PRINCESS
Quiet all of you! I want to know what has happened here!

FRIAR LAURENCE 
I can tell you what has happened.

PRINCESS
Then tell me at once.

FRIAR LAURENCE 
I will.
Romeo and Juliet were married.
I married them the same day the Tybalt was killed.
So Romeo was sent away
It was for him and not Tybalt that Juliet cried.
You then tried to force her to marry
Which she could not do; as she was already a wife.
So she came to me for help.
I gave her a sleeping potion to make her look dead
And tried to arrange for Romeo to collect her
when she woke.
My letter to Romeo was never delivered
And when he heard of her death
He came back to end his own life and lie with her.
This he did and upon waking
Juliet saw her true love dead and ended her own life.

PRINCESS 
Why was Paris here?

BALTHASAR
He came with flowers for Juliet
He saw Romeo and they fought.

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PRINCESS 
Lord Capulet! Lady Montague!
See, what how God despises your hate,
That he kills your children with love.
I have been too soft on you both
And I too have lost relatives in this fight.
We are all punished.

CAPULET 
O sister Montague, give me your hand:
We are friends.

LADY MONTAGUE 
I will build Juliet a statue in pure gold,
For she was a true and faithful wife.

CAPULET 
And I will build one for Romeo.

PRINCESS
We have a grey peace this morning.
The sun is too sad to raise his head.
We will talk more of these sad things.

For never was a story of more woe

Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

(END)

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