Romeo and Juliet Script

(They fight)
ACT 1 SCENE 1
(Enter, Lady MONTAGUE, Lord and Lady CAPULET,
Princess and the NURSE.)
(Enter Mercutio and Benvolio and Gregory. Martin
and Benvolio are laughing and chatting, but
Gregory is wandering about looking on edge)
LORD CAPULET: What's going on? MONTAGUEs! Let
GREGORY Draw your swords Here comes two of the me at them!!
house of the CAPULETs!
LADY CAPULET: Don't be stupid!
MERCUTIO: if they want a fight, let them start it
CAPULET: Get out of the way! Look! There is Lady
GREGORY: I am going to give them some evil looks, MONTAGUE! She has got her sword out! How dare
see how they like that! her!
LADY MONTAGUE: That villain CAPULET! Don't hold
me! Let me go!
(Enter ABRAHAM and TYBALT! TYBALT stands
looking moody by the side of the stage, he hasn't BENVOLIO: Not a chance! Don't get involved!
seen the MONTAGUES, but ABRAHAM sees
PRINCESS: STOP! Stop it all of you! I have had
GREGORY giving him funny looks)
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
ABRAHAM: What's your problem?
of death! I mean it! I will show no mercy to the
GREGORY: Nothing, what's your problem? next person caught fighting in these streets. Now
go home, all of you!
ABRAHAM: Why are you giving me dirty looks?
GREGORY: Are you starting something?
ABRAHAM: Starting something? ME? Wouldn't
waste my time on you! (Exit all but LADY MONTAGUE! and BENVOLIO)

GREGORY: Oh yeah? Well at least my boss isn't an

idiot like yours!
LADY MONTAGUE: Nephew, what went on here?
ABRAHAM: Right, that's it! I've had enough of you! Who started the fight?

GREGORY: Well, come on then! Let's 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: 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?

BENVOLIO: I am trying to stop them! Either get lost LADY MONTAGUE: No. I have tried to speak to him,
or come and help me! but he won't say a thing!

TYBALT: Hang on! So, you have your sword out but
you're not fighting? Yeah right! I hate all the
(Enter ROMEO)
MONTAGUES, especially you, what a coward! Come
on then!
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BENVOLIO: Here he comes now! I will have a word
with him.
LADY MONTAGUE: OK I will go home.
(Exit LADY MONTAGUE)
BENVOLIO: Cousin ROMEO! You seem really down
lately. What's up mate?
(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 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......

ROMEO: Well....nothing, I am just... missing BENVOLIO: Oh, come on! Please?

something....
ROMEO: Oh, alright then! But don't hold your
BENVOLIO: Something or someone? Are you in breath, no-one can possibly be as gorgeous as her!
love?
ROMEO: More like out of love, she's not interested.
(ROMEO AND BENVOLIO exit)
BENVOLIO: Sorry to hear that. Plenty more fish in
the sea though!
ROMEO: Not for me. I think she was the one. She
ACT 1 SCENE 3
was so beautiful, and clever, and funny.
BENVOLIO: Oh, come on mate, if she's not (Enter LADY CAPULET and NURSE)
interested, then she's not interested! Bet there are
loads of girls better than her anyway!
LADY CAPULET: NURSE, where's my daughter?
ROMEO: Oh, what do you know? Just leave me
alone! NURSE: Well! I did call her! Where can she be?
JULIET!!??? JULIET!!

(ROMEO exits. BENVOLIO follows shaking his head.)

(Enter JULIET)

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?
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: Pooh! 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!!
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.
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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?
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)
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 let’s go in.
MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO: Yeah! Come on, let's go
have a party!!!
(They all exit.)
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! 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! Let's dance!
TYBALT: OK, I will leave him alone tonight, but I
won't forget this!
(Exit TYBALT)
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.
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ROMEO: If I am good enough to dance with you, BENVOLIO: Well, it’s pointless looking for him now
am I good enough to kiss you? JULIET: I think you if he heard you, he will just be annoyed! Come on
are. (They kiss) let’s go home!

NURSE: JULIET! Your Mother wants to speak to you! (Exit BENVOLIO AND MERCUTIO)

(JULIET: leaves) ACT 2 SCENE 2

ROMEO: Who is her mother? (Enter ROMEO)

NURSE: Well, well! Her mother is Lady CAPULET.
ROMEO: She is a CAPULET? Oh no! ROMEO: It's alright for him to laugh! He has never
been in love!
BENVOLIO: Let's get out of here.
CAPULET: Leaving already? My word it is quite late!
Well then off to bed! (JULIET appears above at a window)

(Exit all but JULIET and NURSE) 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
JULIET: Come here quick! Who is that? she rests her hand on her face, I wish that I could
stroke her cheek.
NURSE: I don't know.
JULIET: Oh dear.
JULIET: Go ask his name.
ROMEO: She speaks O, speak again, bright angel!
NURSE: His name is ROMEO, and a MONTAGUE; the
only son of your great enemy. JULIET: O ROMEO, ROMEO! Why do you have to be
a MONTAGUE? Leave your family and change your
JULIET: My only love sprung from my only hate!
name, and if you won't just tell me, you love me,
NURSE: What?! and I will no longer be a CAPULET!
JULIET: Oh nothing, forget I spoke. Come on, let's ROMEO: Shall I listen more or shall I speak?
go to bed.
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,
ACT 2 SCENE 1
change your name and be mine forever.
ROMEO: I believe what you say is true, just let me
(Enter ROMEO) be your love and I will change my name!
JULIET: Who is there? Who is listening to me?!

ROMEO: How can I go home without seeing her ROMEO: I do not want to speak my name as you
again? 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
(He climbs the wall, and leaps down within it. Enter
family fined you, they will kill you!
BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO)
ROMEO: I climbed the walls; nothing could keep me
away from you!
BENVOLIO: ROMEO! My cousin ROMEO!
JULIET: But if they see you, they will kill you!
MERCUTIO: I reckon he has gone home to bed. Oh
ROMEO! ROMEO! You miserable so and so! You
pathetic, girly, love sick puppy!
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ROMEO: I am more afraid that you will say you JULIET: Past! ROMEO!
don't love me than I am that they will find me!
ROMEO: Yes love?
Besides, it is so dark No-one will find me here. Tell
me, did you mean what I heard you say? Do you JULIET: What time tomorrow shall I send my
love me? messenger?
JULIET: I am so embarrassed that you heard what I ROMEO: Nine am
said! Do you love me? No wait, don't answer, I
JULIET: It feels like twenty years until then. Good
think that you will say yes But I need to know if you
night!
really mean it. Do you love me?
ROMEO: I must go and see Father Lawrence,
ROMEO: JULIET, I swear I love you and if you love
explain what has happened and see if he will marry
me too then....
us!
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. (Exit)
Good night, good night!
ROMEO: Don't go! Tell me you love me too.
ACT 2 SCENE 3
JULIET: I already have!
NURSE: (calls within) JULIET!!
(Enter FRIAR LAURENCE)
JULIET: Someone is coming! Good night my love!
NURSE: JULIET!!!
FRIAR LAURENCE: It is so early! I must get to work
JULIET: I'm coming!! Wait here, I will be back! 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.
(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)
(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 you 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.
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!
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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. Let's go.
(Exit)
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!
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
MONTAGU: s. Do you know him?
ROMEO: I am ROMEO
NURSE: I need a private word with you.
BENVOLIO: Pooh ROMEO has a date!!
MERCUTIO: Hey ROMEO, is this the secret
girlfriend?!
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: OH, 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. 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)
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!!
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(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!
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 color to your face! Go girl, be happy!
JULIET: Thank you!
(Exit JULIET and NURSE) (The wedding scene will be
played to music.)
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.
MERCUTIO: 00000HH! 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. 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!
(Exit 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, 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 Mercutio, 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. 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)
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!
You sent
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, never again to
return to Verona!
JULIET: Oh 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.
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(Exit)
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!
(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!
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, and 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, 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 JULIETI 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)
ACT 3 SCENE 4
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(Enter NURSE! to the chamber)
(Enter CAPULETI LADY CAPULETI And PARIS) NURSE: Madam!
JULIET: NURSE!
CAPULET: TYBALT's death has meant that I have had NURSE: You mother is coming! Day is breaking, look
not had time to speak to JULIET about your out!
wedding. PARIS: I understand, in times of sadness,
there is no room for love. Madam, good night:
speak well of me to JULIET! (Exit)
LADY CAPULET: I will, and I will know how she feels
in the morning. To-night she is too sad about
JULIET: Then, window, let day in, and let life out.
TYBALT
CAPULET: Sir PARIS! I will take a chance and tell you
that JULIET does love you. She is a good girl and ROMEO: Farewell, farewell! One kiss, and I'll go.
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 (He moves away)
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 JULIET: Are you still there my darling husband? You
disrespectful! So, what do you think to Thursday must write to me every day. It feels like forever
then? until I can see you again.
PARIS: My lord, I wish that Thursday was tomorrow!
CAPULET: Fantastic! Thursday it is then! See you ROMEO: Farewell! I will write to you all the time.
then! Wife, go to JULIET and prepare her to be
married! Good night!
JULIET: O do you think we shall ever meet again?

(Exit)
ROMEO: Of course my love, we will look back on
this and laugh!
ACT 3 SCENE 5

JULIET: O no, no. I think I can see you in my mind,

(Enter ROMEO and JULIET) 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!
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 (Exit)
morning, not the nightingale: look, love, the sun is
rising! I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
JULIET: Hurry back to me.
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! (LADY CAPULET call from offstage)
ROMEO: Fine! My love, you are right it is not the
sun! Let me be taken, let me die!
LADY CAPULET: Daughter? Are you up?
JULIET: wishes it to be so!
JULIET: Oh, it is the sun! It is! Go ROMEO go! It is
getting lighter and lighter now! JULIET: Is that my mother? She is up early! I wonder
why?
ROMEO: The more light there is the darker my
heart grows!
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(Enter LADY CAPULET)
LADY CAPULET: JULIET! What's wrong?
JULIET: I am not well.
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: NOI By Saint Peter's church! He will not
make me a joyful bride! 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!
You sent
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 to drag you there, you will go! 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,
can you 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! 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!
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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 forever; he may never return! I think it best
you marry PARIS! Oh, JULIETI PARIS is so handsome
and rich, He is so much better than ROMEO! I think
you are lucky to have a second marriage, it is so
much better than you are 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)
ACT 4 SCENE 1
(Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and PARIS)
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!
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: On Thursday, sir? That is not FRIAR LAURENCE: Go then, do as I say. I will write
much time! to ROMEO! (Exit)
PARIS: Lord CAPULET wants the wedding to be
Thursday and I am happy to go agree!
ACT 4 SCENE 2
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 (Enter CAPULET! LADY CAPULET! NURSE)
thinks that this will cheer her up.
FRIAR LAURENCE: Look sir, here is JULIET now.
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!
(Enter JULIET)
NURSE: Gone to see Friar Laurence
CAPULET: Maybe he can talk some sense into her.
PARIS: Hello! My lady and my wife!
NURSE: Here she comes now! She looks happy!
JULIET: Not yet sir.
PARIS: On Thursday you will be!
(Enter JULIET)
JULIET: What must be shall be.
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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.
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)
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, 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
(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
(Enter NURSE)
NURSE: JULIET! JULIET! Oh, bless her she is fast
asleep! JULIET! JULIET! Oh, come on your 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?
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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!
NURSE: She's dead! Oh, sad day!
LADY CAPULET: She's dead, she's dead, and 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, PARISI 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!
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 color let there be black.
(Exit)
ACT 5 SCENE 1
(Enter ROMEO)
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 JULIETI 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.
(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. 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)
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FRIAR JOHN: Friar Laurence! Are you in?
(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.
(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 if he
is OK. (Hides)
ROMEO: Now I will see my love. (Opens the tomb)
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! (Fall)
PARIS: Please, please lie me with JULIETI (Dies)
ROMEO: I will. Poor PARISI (Laying PARIS in the
tomb) 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 lovel (Drinks)
ROMEO: Oh these drugs are quick. So with a kiss |
die. (Dies)
(JULIET: wakes)
JULIET: Oh! I remember where I aml 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 miss you.
Maybe some of the mixture is still on your lips? No.
Someone is coming. I must be quick! Oh a dagger!
So I diel
(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!
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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)
FRIAR LAURENCE: ROMEO! And PARIS too? And
JULIET! All dead!
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.
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.

(Enter the Princess) CAPULET: O sister MONTAGUE! Give me your hand:

We are friends.
LADY MONTAGUE: I will build JULIET a statue in
PRINCESS: What is this? PARIS is killed! ROMEO too
pure gold, for she was a true and faithful wife.
lies here dead And JULIET warm and bleeding and
dead again? Who can tell me what has happened CAPULET: And I will build one for ROMEO!
here?

PRINCESS: We have a grey peace this morning. The

(Enter rest of the cast) 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!
CAPULET: What is going on?
LADY CAPULET: The people in the street shout
(END)
ROMEO! Some say JULIETI And some PARIS; and all
run, towards our monument.
CAPULET: O heavens! O wife, look how JULIET
bleeds! But she was dead!
LADY CAPULET: Ohl
LADY MONTAGUE: What? Is that my ROMEO! How
can this be?
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